{"id":5028,"date":"2020-05-06T23:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=5028"},"modified":"2020-05-09T09:27:17","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T09:27:17","slug":"ocha-floods-kill-16-in-somalia-affect-over-200000-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2020\/05\/06\/ocha-floods-kill-16-in-somalia-affect-over-200000-others\/","title":{"rendered":"OCHA: Floods kill 16 in Somalia, affect over 200,000 others"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU\u00a0 —<\/strong> At least 16 people have died while more than 200,000 others have been affected by torrential rains and riverine floods since the Gu (April-June) rains started in Somalia a month ago, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

OCHA said 10 other people are missing due to floods and at least 2,000 farms have been swamped by water.<\/p>\n

“The rains are likely to increase the risk of water-borne diseases,” OCHA warned in its latest report on the impact of floods in Somalia.<\/p>\n

The forecast by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) indicates that the moderate to high flood risk is likely to persist at least through mid-May.<\/p>\n

This, the UN says, threatens urban and riverine populations, including in BeletWeyne (Hiraan) and Jowhar (Middle Shabelle) of Hirshabelle state.<\/p>\n

According to the UN, river levels have risen along the Shabelle basin and there is a high risk of flooding in the coming days and advised riverine communities in BeletWeyne to prepare for possible relocation during the week.<\/p>\n

The UN said the most impact has been felt in Puntland where a heavy downpour on April 27 killed eight people and displaced more than 22,000 people, and in Galmudug where six people have died and about 22,000 others are affected by floods.<\/p>\n

It said more than 100,000 people in South West State have been affected by floods while Jubaland has more than 11,800 flood-affected displaced families reported in Lower Juba region.<\/p>\n

The UN agency warned that the ongoing Gu (rainy season)’s flooding will exacerbate the humanitarian situation, joining the COVID-19 pandemic and locust infestation to form a “Triple Threat”.<\/p>\n

It said disruptions to transport due to damaged roads and COVID-19 restrictions have pushed food prices up in some affected areas.<\/p>\n

Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: View original<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU\u00a0 — At least 16 people have died while more than 200,000 others have been affected by torrential rains and riverine floods since the Gu (April-June) rains started in Somalia a month ago, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. OCHA said 10 other people are missing due to floods …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-news","category-wash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028","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=5028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5028\/revisions\/5031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}