{"id":10700,"date":"2022-08-10T22:22:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T22:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2022-08-14T08:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T08:33:39","slug":"un-severe-drought-displaces-over-1m-somalis-since-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/08\/10\/un-severe-drought-displaces-over-1m-somalis-since-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Severe drought displaces over 1M Somalis since Jan 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0<\/strong>The number of drought-related displacements in Somalia has surpassed the million mark for the first time since January 2021, the UN humanitarian agency said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement on Tuesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that during the month of July, 83,518 people were displaced by drought, a 26% decrease compared to the previous month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new displacements have been observed in Somalia\u2019s Southwestern Bay region followed by Banadir and Gedo regions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf the funding gap is not urgently addressed, the real risk of widespread famine may be inevitable,\u201d the agency warned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia is the worst drought-affected country in the region with more than 7 million people affected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Horn of Africa country is experiencing one of the worst climate change-related droughts in more than 40 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/severe-drought-displaces-over-1m-somalis-since-january-2021-un\/2658239\" 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;\u00a0The number of drought-related displacements in Somalia has surpassed the million mark for the first time since January 2021, the UN humanitarian agency said. In a statement on Tuesday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that during the month of July, 83,518 people were displaced by drought, a 26% &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","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\/10700","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=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions\/10703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}