{"id":206,"date":"2018-04-27T15:47:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T15:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=206"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T08:58:57","slug":"over-427000-people-affected-by-floods-across-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2018\/04\/27\/over-427000-people-affected-by-floods-across-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 427,000 people affected by floods across Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU (SOHA) &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>&#8221;Our staff on the ground have seen the elderly, women and children struggling to survive while their flimsy shelters are knee-high full of stagnant water,&#8221; NRC Country Director Victor Moses said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Countless displaced communities are sheltering in flood-prone areas. With limited access to proper toilets and clean water, it\u2019s a ticking time bomb for disease outbreaks like cholera and malaria,&#8221; Moses warned.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Thursday, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said &#8221;nearly 175,000 have been displaced as a result of the flash and river flooding in Hirshabelle, South West and Jubaland states as well as Banadir region\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8221;No new human casualties have been reported since the last update when three people were found drowned,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One displaced mother in Baidoa told NRC staff how she delivered a baby during the flooding: \u201cMy labor pains started in the middle of the rains. The flooding came into my house and the floods pushed us to seek refuge in a neighboring community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019m staying there until the water dries out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN said \u201cheavy rainfall is likely to continue over the coming week both inside Somalia and within the Ethiopian highlands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somali local authorities had also called on the federal government and humanitarian agencies to help those who are in very critical conditions, according to Somali news agency SONNA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: AA\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU (SOHA) &#8211;\u00a0&#8221;Our staff on the ground have seen the elderly, women and children struggling to survive while their flimsy shelters are knee-high full of stagnant water,&#8221; NRC Country Director Victor Moses said in a statement. &#8216;Countless displaced communities are sheltering in flood-prone areas. With limited access to proper toilets and clean water, it\u2019s a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,1,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-food-security-cluster","category-news","category-shelter-nfis-cluster","category-wash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}