{"id":14581,"date":"2024-07-25T09:25:07","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T09:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=14581"},"modified":"2024-07-28T07:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T07:50:37","slug":"igad-commits-to-support-member-states-in-disaster-preparedness-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2024\/07\/25\/igad-commits-to-support-member-states-in-disaster-preparedness-management\/","title":{"rendered":"IGAD commits to support member states in disaster preparedness and mngt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Djibouti &#8212; <\/strong>IGAD has reaffirmed commitment to supporting member states in enhancing disaster preparedness and response mechanisms to prevent such tragedies in the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement, IGAD Executive Secretary, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu extended his condolences to families affected by landslides in Southern Ethiopia as he urged citizens to remain vigilant and follow safety protocols to protect lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs the region continues to face the harsh impacts of climate change, we urge everyone to stay vigilant and follow safety protocols to protect lives and prevent further tragedies.\u201d Workneh urged.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This following landslides that occurred on Sunday evening and Monday morning, after heavy rains in a remote mountainous area of the Gofa zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to BBC, a local authority said the search for survivors was \u201ccontinuing vigorously\u201d but that the \u201cdeath toll could yet increase\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rescue teams have so far retrieved the bodies of 229 people killed in two landslides in southern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: KBC\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin:<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/igad-commits-to-support-member-states-in-disaster-preparedness-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">View original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Djibouti &#8212; IGAD has reaffirmed commitment to supporting member states in enhancing disaster preparedness and response mechanisms to prevent such tragedies in the future. In a statement, IGAD Executive Secretary, Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu extended his condolences to families affected by landslides in Southern Ethiopia as he urged citizens to remain vigilant and follow safety protocols &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581","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=14581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14597,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14581\/revisions\/14597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}