{"id":12920,"date":"2023-12-29T22:26:17","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T22:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2024-01-01T06:32:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T06:32:34","slug":"unicef-appeals-for-funds-to-support-3-2-mln-somalis-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2023\/12\/29\/unicef-appeals-for-funds-to-support-3-2-mln-somalis-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF appeals for funds to support 3.2M Somalis in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> The UN Children&#8217;s Fund, UNICEF, said Thursday that it&#8217;s appealing for 222.2 million U.S. dollars to support 3.2 million Somali people, including 2 million children, in 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Approximately half of Somalis face a shortage of sustainable and safe water for drinking and other household needs, which has increased acute watery diarrhea\/cholera cases,&#8221; UNICEF said in its appeal released in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to UNICEF, 29 drought-affected districts reported 13,000 cholera cases and 31 fatalities in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN agency said about 1.5 million children under five years of age, roughly equivalent to 40 percent of Somalia&#8217;s under-five child population, are projected to experience acute wasting from August 2023 to July 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/world\/Off_the_Wire\/2023-12\/29\/content_116909033.htm\" 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; The UN Children&#8217;s Fund, UNICEF, said Thursday that it&#8217;s appealing for 222.2 million U.S. dollars to support 3.2 million Somali people, including 2 million children, in 2024. &#8220;Approximately half of Somalis face a shortage of sustainable and safe water for drinking and other household needs, which has increased acute watery diarrhea\/cholera cases,&#8221; UNICEF &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-protection-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920","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=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}