{"id":15942,"date":"2025-01-23T20:27:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=15942"},"modified":"2025-01-25T04:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T04:50:43","slug":"un-nearly-6-million-somalis-need-aid-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2025\/01\/23\/un-nearly-6-million-somalis-need-aid-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: nearly 6 million Somalis need aid this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Nearly six million people in Somalia, almost a third of the country\u2019s population, need humanitarian aid this year, the United Nations said Wednesday as it launched a $1.43 billion funding appeal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Horn of Africa nation is one of the world\u2019s poorest, enduring decades of civil war, a bloody insurgency by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab, and frequent climate disasters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSomalia continues to face a complex, protracted humanitarian crisis,\u201d a statement from the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said, citing a range of issues from conflict to \u201cclimate shocks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country is currently facing \u201cwidespread dry conditions following poor October to December rains,\u201d OCHA said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The funding appeal launched Monday with the Somali government aims \u201cto support some 4.6 million of the most vulnerable people in the country,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: AFP\u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barrons.com\/news\/nearly-six-million-somalis-need-aid-this-year-un-f27fce7d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\">view original<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Nearly six million people in Somalia, almost a third of the country\u2019s population, need humanitarian aid this year, the United Nations said Wednesday as it launched a $1.43 billion funding appeal. The Horn of Africa nation is one of the world\u2019s poorest, enduring decades of civil war, a bloody insurgency by the Al-Qaeda-linked &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,1,25],"tags":[1557,1548,1473,37,35,275],"class_list":["post-15942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-humanitarian-appeals","category-news","category-relief","tag-6-million","tag-devastating-drought","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-ocha","tag-somalia","tag-un"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942","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=15942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15943,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15942\/revisions\/15943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}