{"id":12120,"date":"2023-05-16T20:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T20:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=12120"},"modified":"2023-05-17T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T09:52:35","slug":"un-partners-launch-somalia-flood-response-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/05\/16\/un-partners-launch-somalia-flood-response-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN, partners launch Somalia flood response plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Following devastating rains in Somalia, UN humanitarians said on Monday they are launching a national flood preparedness and response plan with the authorities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;According to early estimates by our partners, more than 460,000 people have been affected, including nearly 219,000 people who have been displaced,&#8221; the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. &#8220;Homes and farmland have been inundated, livestock have been washed away and school and health facilities have temporarily shuttered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The humanitarian office said it would launch a rapid needs assessment on Tuesday, together with its partners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) sent early-warning text messages to 5,000 farmers across Hirshabelle State, where the Shabelle River overflowed its banks, forcing thousands of people to move to higher ground, OCHA said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The office said the FAO and partners provided sandbags, shovels, and other supplies to help clear drains and mitigate flooding in Hirshabelle. The WFP is sending 17 tons of high-energy biscuits and has provided boats to reach people in flooded areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Should heavy rains continue in Somalia and in the Ethiopian highlands, our partners estimate that up to 1.6 million people could be impacted, with more than 600,000 people displaced,&#8221; OCHA said. &#8220;The rains also increase the risk of outbreaks of waterborne diseases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The office said the destruction means more funds are needed since the humanitarian response plan for Somalia, which requests 2.6 billion U.S. dollars, is only 25 percent funded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20230516\/c689323b34d44c22a708a0d2629b169d\/c.html\" 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; Following devastating rains in Somalia, UN humanitarians said on Monday they are launching a national flood preparedness and response plan with the authorities. &#8220;According to early estimates by our partners, more than 460,000 people have been affected, including nearly 219,000 people who have been displaced,&#8221; the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1,25,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-news","category-relief","category-wash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120","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=12120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12122,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions\/12122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}