An internally displaced Somali family prepares breakfast outside their makeshift shelter in Mogadishu May 7, 2026. Photo: OSV News/Feisal Omar, Reuters. Pope Leo XIV called for international solidarity with Somalia, where ongoing violence and extreme weather are making an already severe humanitarian crisis even worse. “With great concern,” the pontiff said Sunday, “I am following the humanitarian crisis unfolding in certain areas of Somalia.” “[A]cts of violence and extreme weather events are exacerbating the already precarious…
