{"id":13472,"date":"2024-03-01T22:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T22:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=13472"},"modified":"2024-03-18T09:00:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T09:00:41","slug":"wfp-says-6-9-mln-people-require-aid-in-somalia-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/03\/01\/wfp-says-6-9-mln-people-require-aid-in-somalia-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"WFP says 6.9 mln people require aid in Somalia in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong>About 6.9 million Somali people are expected to require lifesaving humanitarian and protection assistance in 2024, the World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">El Nino-induced floods, experienced from October 2023, combined with the after-effects of a drought, protracted conflict, and high food prices continue to fuel acute food insecurity in Somalia, the WFP said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;High levels of malnutrition persist in Somalia with 1.7 million children under five expected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2024, including 430,000 children likely to face life-threatening severe acute malnutrition &#8211; attributable to high disease burden and poor access to health, nutrition,&#8221; the WFP said in latest report released in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN food agency said it requires 342.2 million U.S. dollars in net funding across all activities for the next six months to scale up humanitarian response in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The October-December 2023 Deyr rains, which caused devastating floods, experienced an early end, but the flood impacts were substantial, with 2.4 million people affected, 1 million displaced and complete crop failure along the Juba and Shabelle rivers, according to the WFP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20240301\/63427759c47d4f618856803821ec4879\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; About 6.9 million Somali people are expected to require lifesaving humanitarian and protection assistance in 2024, the World Food Program (WFP) said on Friday. El Nino-induced floods, experienced from October 2023, combined with the after-effects of a drought, protracted conflict, and high food prices continue to fuel acute food insecurity in Somalia, the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472","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=13472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13487,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13472\/revisions\/13487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}