{"id":10016,"date":"2022-04-08T22:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T22:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=10016"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:48:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T08:48:04","slug":"somaliland-demands-2-billion-appeal-after-market-inferno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/04\/08\/somaliland-demands-2-billion-appeal-after-market-inferno\/","title":{"rendered":"Somaliland demands $2 bln appeal after market inferno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>HARGEISA &#8212;<\/strong> The Somali region of Somaliland launched an international appeal on Wednesday for $2 billion to urgently deliver humanitarian and livelihood support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The appeal comes after a huge fire destroyed the main market in the capital Hargeisa, wiping out t an estimated 5,000 small, medium and large family businesses and therefore devastating the local economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi said in a statement that the fire had caused losses estimated at $2 billion, or around 60 percent of country&#8217;s gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Its GDP in 2020 was just over $2.9 billion, shrinking 3.1 percent from the previous year largely because of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to official figures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but the move has not been recognized by the international community, leaving the region of about four million people<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The breakaway region has however remained relatively stable while Somalia has been wracked by decades of political violence and an Islamist insurgency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An investigation team is looking into the cause of the fire and its report is expected to be disclosed to the media in the next few days, he further said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: AFP+Africa News\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2022\/04\/07\/somaliland-demands-2-billion-appeal-after-market-inferno\/\/#:~:text=The%20Somali%20region%20of%20Somaliland,deliver%20humanitarian%20and%20livelihood%20support.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARGEISA &#8212; The Somali region of Somaliland launched an international appeal on Wednesday for $2 billion to urgently deliver humanitarian and livelihood support. The appeal comes after a huge fire destroyed the main market in the capital Hargeisa, wiping out t an estimated 5,000 small, medium and large family businesses and therefore devastating the local &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10016\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}