{"id":10697,"date":"2022-08-05T22:12:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T22:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=10697"},"modified":"2022-08-14T08:17:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T08:17:05","slug":"fao-appeals-for-over-130m-to-assist-882k-people-across-drought-hit-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/08\/05\/fao-appeals-for-over-130m-to-assist-882k-people-across-drought-hit-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"FAO appeals for over $130M to assist 882K people across drought-hit Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong>The UN Food and Agriculture Organization&#8217;s (FAO) office in Somalia said on Friday that it urgently required $131.4 million to assist 882,000 people across the Horn of Africa country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Funding levels remain low across sectors,&#8221; the UN agency said in a statement, adding that its famine prevention efforts covering 55 of Somalia&#8217;s 90 districts were only 46% funded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Voicing concern on the drought situation in Somalia, it underlined the vulnerability of the households that have been affected by it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We cannot wait for famine to be declared; we must act now to safeguard livelihoods and lives,&#8221; FOA said<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With agriculture accounting for up to 60% of Somalia&#8217;s national income, 80% of its employment, and 90% of its exports, it is vital that efforts related to the sector are seen as part of a frontline humanitarian response.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 900,000 people in Somalia, mostly living in rural areas, have moved to internally displaced persons camps since January 2021 due to the drought and lack of livelihood support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to UN Children Fund, more than 500 children died in Somalia since January due to drought-related malnutrition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 7 million Somalis have been affected by the drought, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/fao-appeals-for-over-130m-to-assist-882-000-people-across-drought-hit-somalia\/2654669\" 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>MOGADISHU &#8212; The UN Food and Agriculture Organization&#8217;s (FAO) office in Somalia said on Friday that it urgently required $131.4 million to assist 882,000 people across the Horn of Africa country. &#8220;Funding levels remain low across sectors,&#8221; the UN agency said in a statement, adding that its famine prevention efforts covering 55 of Somalia&#8217;s 90 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697","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=10697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10699,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10697\/revisions\/10699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}