{"id":13887,"date":"2024-04-23T09:20:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T09:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=13887"},"modified":"2024-04-25T14:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T14:19:23","slug":"sodma-issues-early-flood-warnings-for-final-week-of-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/04\/23\/sodma-issues-early-flood-warnings-for-final-week-of-april\/","title":{"rendered":"SoDMA issues early flood warnings for final week of April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA) has issued early flood warnings\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">expected to<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0affect the country in the final week of April.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In a statement released on Monday, SoDMA highlighted that the floods are likely to impact districts such as Jowhar, Beledweyn, Buulaburde, Luuq, Dolow, and other\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">major<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> towns where rivers do not pass, particularly in the regions of Bay, Bakool, Gedo, and Lower Juba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These designated districts may face risks associated with river flooding and flash floods. The increase in water levels of the Shabelle and Juba rivers is attributed to heavy rains in parts of Somalia and the Ethiopian mountains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Sunday, the upcoming heavier-than-normal Gu rains and floods in 22 districts of Somalia are expected to affect some 770,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The April-to-June Gu rains have started in most regions of the country, with heavy rains in some areas, though no flash or riverine flooding has been reported yet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The UN agency stated that 51 boats are available to evacuate people and deliver assistance in priority locations along the Shabelle and Juba rivers\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">and<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0to deliver assistance to areas that may be cut off\u00a0<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">or<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0evacuate people who may be marooned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In late 2023<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, heavy Deyr (October to December) rains and flooding displaced 1.6 million people from their homes<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, according to the UN<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: HOL\u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/hiiraan.com\/news4\/2024\/Apr\/195993\/gu_rains_alert_somalia_issues_early_flood_warnings_for_final_week_of_april.aspx?utm_source=hiiraan&amp;utm_medium=SomaliNewsUpdateFront\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; The Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA) has issued early flood warnings\u00a0expected to\u00a0affect the country in the final week of April. In a statement released on Monday, SoDMA highlighted that the floods are likely to impact districts such as Jowhar, Beledweyn, Buulaburde, Luuq, Dolow, and other\u00a0major towns where rivers do not pass, particularly in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-wash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887","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=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13906,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions\/13906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}