{"id":2845,"date":"2019-05-01T22:46:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2019-05-02T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T13:49:29","slug":"un-says-1-7-million-somalis-will-face-major-food-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/05\/01\/un-says-1-7-million-somalis-will-face-major-food-insecurity\/","title":{"rendered":"UN says 1.7 million Somalis will face major food insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU (SoOHA) &#8211;<\/strong> The U.N. estimates 1.7 million people in Somalia will \u201cface crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity until June\u201d after a second consecutive bad rainy season caused livestock losses and failed crops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Wednesday that this represents a 10% increase in food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He says that \u201cmalnutrition rates are rapidly escalating due to the drought conditions and 954,000 children are anticipated to be acutely malnourished,\u201d including 174,600 children who are severely malnourished.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dujarric says the U.N. humanitarian team is preparing a plan to address food gaps between May and October. But he says the current plan seeking $1.08 billion for Somalia is only 19% funded, which has led to the scaling back of water, sanitation and hygiene activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: The Associated Press<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU (SoOHA) &#8211; The U.N. estimates 1.7 million people in Somalia will \u201cface crisis and emergency levels of food insecurity until June\u201d after a second consecutive bad rainy season caused livestock losses and failed crops. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Wednesday that this represents a 10% increase in food insecurity. He says that \u201cmalnutrition rates &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news","category-nutrition-cluster"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","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=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}