{"id":3511,"date":"2019-09-11T22:32:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T22:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2019-09-12T06:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T06:38:02","slug":"more-aid-urged-to-address-displacement-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/09\/11\/more-aid-urged-to-address-displacement-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"More aid urged to address displacement in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU (SoOHA) &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Tuesday called on donors to increase emergency humanitarian assistance to help avert further displacements in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A deadly combination of drought, conflict, and insecurity has forced more than 250,000 people in the first seven months of 2019 to leave their homes, a figure likely to rise further in the coming months if humanitarian aid continues to go underfunded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Thousands of Somali people are caught in a vicious cycle of conflict, insecurity, and drought that is pushing families over the edge,&#8221; Victor Moses, country director for NRC in Somalia, said in a statement issued in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Some are forced to flee their homes due to conflict while others are migrating to overcrowded camps in cities to find food and water because of drought,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia&#8217;s crisis is a perfect storm of natural and human-made factors and is rapidly worsening, Moses said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This never-ending barrage of problems is not only an assault on the dignity of people in Somalia but a direct attack on their ability to survive. They have a right of survival and dignity, and it is incumbent on all of us to ensure it,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the charity, this year&#8217;s UN humanitarian aid appeal for Somalia has requested 1.08 billion U.S. dollars for humanitarian programs in 2019, marking it one of the largest crises in the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Despite the growing emergency, only 47 percent of the appeal has been funded so far this year,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NRC is urging donors and governments to increase emergency aid for the Somalia crisis, warning that an already disastrous humanitarian situation risks deteriorating even further. Enditem<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source:\u00a0XINHUA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU (SoOHA) &#8211;\u00a0The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Tuesday called on donors to increase emergency humanitarian assistance to help avert further displacements in Somalia. A deadly combination of drought, conflict, and insecurity has forced more than 250,000 people in the first seven months of 2019 to leave their homes, a figure likely to rise further &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-displacement-and-asylum","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3514,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/3514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}