{"id":10714,"date":"2022-08-17T11:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=10714"},"modified":"2022-08-17T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T11:23:31","slug":"somali-pm-appoints-national-drought-committee-to-tackle-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/08\/17\/somali-pm-appoints-national-drought-committee-to-tackle-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali PM appoints national drought committee to tackle famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia&#8217;s PM chaired a special cabinet meeting on Wednesday to appoint a national drought committee to coordinate famine relief efforts in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The PM reactivated the National Disaster Management Agency and appointed a committee of cabinet ministers, business leaders, civil society groups and scholars working alongside government and international organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Prime Minister called on all Somalis around the globe to help mitigate the emergency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drought has affected more than 7.1 million people in Somalia, where communities face extreme food insecurity, starvation, and disease due to four consecutive failed rainy seasons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over 1 million people have been displaced due to the crisis, which is being billed as the worst drought Somalia has seen in 40 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Drought Committee will include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1- Deputy Prime Minister<br \/>\n2- Minister of Interior, Federal and Reconciliation<br \/>\n3- Minister of Religion and Endowments<br \/>\n4- Minister of Health and Social Welfare<br \/>\n5- Minister of Planning, Investment and Economic Development<br \/>\n6- Minister of Finance<br \/>\n7- Minister of Environment and Climate Change<br \/>\n8- Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism<br \/>\n9- Minister of Women and Human Rights<br \/>\n10- Minister of Internal Security<br \/>\n11- Minister of Defense<br \/>\n12- Minister of Energy and Water resources<br \/>\n13- Special Envoy for Drought Response<br \/>\n14- Somali scholars<br \/>\n15- Chamber of Commerce and Industry<br \/>\n16- And Civil society organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: HOL\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/hiiraan.com\/news4\/2022\/Aug\/187455\/pm_barre_appoints_national_drought_committee_to_tackle_famine.aspx?utm_source=hiiraan&amp;utm_medium=SomaliNewsUpdateFront\" 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; Somalia&#8217;s PM chaired a special cabinet meeting on Wednesday to appoint a national drought committee to coordinate famine relief efforts in Somalia. The PM reactivated the National Disaster Management Agency and appointed a committee of cabinet ministers, business leaders, civil society groups and scholars working alongside government and international organizations. The Prime Minister &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714","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=10714"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10722,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10714\/revisions\/10722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}