{"id":7645,"date":"2021-03-13T04:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T04:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7645"},"modified":"2021-03-19T04:27:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T04:27:57","slug":"poor-seasonal-rains-threatening-foundations-of-tens-of-thousands-of-somali-livelihoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/03\/13\/poor-seasonal-rains-threatening-foundations-of-tens-of-thousands-of-somali-livelihoods\/","title":{"rendered":"OCHA: Poor seasonal rains threatening \u2018foundations\u2019 of tens of thousands of Somali livelihoods"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK\u00a0 —\u00a0<\/strong> Poor rain forecast for the next few months threatens to exacerbate the plight of tens of thousands of Somalis displaced from their homes and villages due to \u201cextreme\u201d water shortages since last November, the UN humanitarian office said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), said that pre-drought conditions have already been reported in parts of Somaliland, Puntland, Hirshabelle, Galmudug and Jubaland regions of the Horn of Africa country after the poor seasonal rains late last year.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe loss of rain-fed pasture is threatening the survival of livestock which is the foundation of many Somalis\u2019 livelihoods. Displaced people have told [us] that they are moving in search of water and pasture for their animals\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n

An estimated 2.7 million people in Somalia, including about 840,000 children aged under five, are at risk of \u201ccrisis level\u201d of food insecurity \u201cor worse\u201d, between April and June \u2013 the main rainy season in the country, Mr. Laerke added.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat is an increase of more than 65 per cent compared to current levels. Water shortages will also increase the risk of disease outbreaks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Response efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n

He went on to note that humanitarian organizations are delivering water to some 300,000 people in affected areas, and $13 million has been released from the Somalia Humanitarian Fund to step up response efforts.<\/p>\n

A rapid response allocation of $7 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) is also on its way, and up to $20 million will be released to fund anticipatory action in Somalia, the OCHA spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

A complex, multi-layered crisis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Somalia has been plagued by a complex, multi-layered humanitarian crisis for decades, further complicated by conflict, climate shocks, disease outbreaks and weak social protection mechanisms. Since last year, Desert Locust infestations and the COVID-19 pandemic have added to the challenges.<\/p>\n

In 2021, an estimated 5.9 million people across Somalia \u2013 including 15 per cent women and 66 per cent children \u2013 are expected to require humanitarian support.<\/p>\n

UN and humanitarian partners aim to reach about 4 million vulnerable people with life-saving assistance through the year, for which they require about $1.09 billion. However, only 2.5 percent of that amount has been secured so far.<\/p>\n

The appeal responds to humanitarian programmes across eight emergency clusters, spanning education, food security and livelihoods, health, logistics, non-food items (NFIs) and emergency shelter, nutrition, protection, and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH).<\/p>\n

Source: UN News Center\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK\u00a0 —\u00a0 Poor rain forecast for the next few months threatens to exacerbate the plight of tens of thousands of Somalis displaced from their homes and villages due to \u201cextreme\u201d water shortages since last November, the UN humanitarian office said on Friday. Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news","category-wash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645","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=7645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7648,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7645\/revisions\/7648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}