{"id":10835,"date":"2022-08-25T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=10835"},"modified":"2022-08-31T13:25:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T13:25:44","slug":"somali-govt-sends-food-aid-to-hirshabelle-sate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/08\/25\/somali-govt-sends-food-aid-to-hirshabelle-sate\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali gov&#8217;t sends food aid to Hirshabelle sate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somali government dispatched four planes carrying food aid to the Beledweyne and Bulaburte districts in Hiiraan region on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chairman of Somalia&#8217;s Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), Mohamud Moalim Abdullahi, Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, Mohamed Abukar Zubeyr and other officials who coordinated the aid did not specify the number of tons they sent to the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month, the federal government sent a plane carrying food aid to the Bula Burte district of the Hiiraan region to help drought-affected people in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bula Burte is one of the districts most affected by the current severe drought in Somalia. In addition, the district has been under siege from Al-Shabaab for almost ten years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia is battling the worst drought in decades, with UN and community activists sounding the alarm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Somali government received 40 containers of food aid from the United Arab Emirates last week amid concern over famine in the Horn of Africa. The drought has displaced a million people so far.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UAE Ambassador to Somalia Mohamed al-Othmani, said the food supplies include more than 1,000 metric tons sent by the UAE Red Crescent, meant to help Somalia fight the drought that has devastated the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: HOL\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/hiiraan.com\/news4\/2022\/Aug\/187538\/somali_government_sent_food_aid_to_beledweyne_bulaburte_in_hiiraan_region.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; Somali government dispatched four planes carrying food aid to the Beledweyne and Bulaburte districts in Hiiraan region on Tuesday. Chairman of Somalia&#8217;s Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), Mohamud Moalim Abdullahi, Permanent Secretary of the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office, Mohamed Abukar Zubeyr and other officials who coordinated the aid did not specify the number of tons &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10835","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\/10835","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=10835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10835\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}