NAIROBI, May 14 — Areas of southern Somalia are at risk of ‌ famine , two global food security monitors said on Thursday, with one district reaching a level of hunger not seen in the country since 2022. One of the world’s most food-insecure nations because of frequent drought, conflict and poverty, Somalia last experienced famine in 2011, when around 250,000 people died, ​and came close in 2017 and 2022. Residents of the Maacani Camp are struggling to survive in tents under limited conditions in Mogadishu, Somalia, on May 5, 2026. Anadolu via Getty Images A mother holds her malnourished child on Sept. 3, 2022, in Baidoa, Somalia. Getty Images This time, global cuts to foreign aid and the impacts of the ​ US-Israeli war on Iran  are  complicating efforts to respond to food shortages caused by multiple failed rain seasons ⁠and ongoing insecurity.…