{"id":4150,"date":"2020-02-02T20:42:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T20:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2020-02-11T09:41:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:41:01","slug":"somalia-declares-national-emergency-over-locust-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/02\/02\/somalia-declares-national-emergency-over-locust-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia declares &#8216;national emergency&#8217; over locust plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Somalia declared the worst desert locust invasion in a quarter-century a national emergency that\u2019s posing a major threat to an already fragile food situation.<span id=\"more-1827\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swarms of the insects are breeding in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Sudan and have also spread to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia where they are devouring swaths of farming and pasture land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia requires surveillance, data collection, reporting, and control activities to help contain the pests before the so-called gu\u2019 cropping season that begins in April, the agriculture ministry said in an emailed statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIf we don\u2019t act now, we risk a severe food crisis that we cannot afford by any means,\u201d according to the statement. \u201cFunding is urgently needed to be able to advance these efforts in time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Read more: Vast Locust Swarm Casts Shadow Over East African Food Security<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A typical desert locust swarm can contain as many as 150 million locusts per square kilometer. Swarms migrate with the wind and can cover 100 to 150 kilometers in a day, destroying the number of crops in a day that would be sufficient to feed 2,500 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: AFP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212;\u00a0\u00a0Somalia declared the worst desert locust invasion in a quarter-century a national emergency that\u2019s posing a major threat to an already fragile food situation. Swarms of the insects are breeding in Djibouti, Eritrea, and Sudan and have also spread to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia where they are devouring swaths of farming and pasture land. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","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=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4191,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4191"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}