{"id":11657,"date":"2023-01-26T21:21:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T21:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=11657"},"modified":"2023-01-31T08:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T08:23:25","slug":"qffd-provides-urgent-aid-to-drought-affected-people-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/01\/26\/qffd-provides-urgent-aid-to-drought-affected-people-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"QFFD provides urgent aid to drought-affected people in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field-body-print field-body\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>DOHA &#8212;<\/strong> In light of the problematic drought conditions in the Republic of Somalia, Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), in cooperation with Qatar Charity (QC), sent urgent food aid, to drought- affected people in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The aid contained 2,000 tons of food supplies for the benefit of more than 200,000 people affected by the drought in the country in five states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This urgent aid comes to address the drought and contribute to improving livelihoods, easing the Somali people&#8217;s economic burdens, and alleviating food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is worth noting that QFFD, along with Qatar Charity, sent 45 tons of food aid to Somalia to combat drought in March, last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This aid comes within the framework of the State of Qatar&#8217;s endeavors and its firm commitment to support and stand by brotherly Somali people, meet their necessary needs, and support them to stand up again and rebuild after this disaster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the United Nations, today, 7.8 million people in Somalia suffer from the consequences of drought, of whom 213,000 are at risk of severe famine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: QNA\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qna.org.qa\/en\/News-Area\/News\/2023-01\/26\/0049-qatar-fund-for-development-provides-urgent-aid-to-drought--affected-people-in-somalia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOHA &#8212; In light of the problematic drought conditions in the Republic of Somalia, Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD), in cooperation with Qatar Charity (QC), sent urgent food aid, to drought- affected people in Somalia. The aid contained 2,000 tons of food supplies for the benefit of more than 200,000 people affected by the drought &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11657","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\/11657","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=11657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11672,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11657\/revisions\/11672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}