{"id":8849,"date":"2021-08-27T22:17:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T22:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=8849"},"modified":"2021-09-01T13:26:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:26:22","slug":"horn-of-africa-to-experience-less-rainfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/08\/27\/horn-of-africa-to-experience-less-rainfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Horn of Africa to experience less rainfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NAIROBI &#8212;<\/strong> The greater horn of Africa region will experience suppressed rainfall from October to December, worsening an already fragile food and water security situation, says a forecast from Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) issued in Nairobi on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A drier than usual season is forecasted across Eastern Africa from October to December 2021,&#8221; says the IGAD forecast adding that depressed rains will reduce crop yield, and increase the number of hungry people in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The IGAD forecast noted that a bulk of countries in the horn of the African region depend on the October to December rain season to prepare for planting of key staples.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the worrying drier than usual conditions that is forecasted in Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea could delay or disrupt the planting season.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to IGAD, of major concern is the drier than usual conditions expected in the cross-border areas of Kenya and Somalia, already reeling from climate induced food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Besides the dry conditions, warmer than usual temperatures are expected across the region in particular in eastern Kenya to Somalia, eastern parts of Ethiopia and eastern Sudan,&#8221; said IGAD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The regional bloc said a worsening hunger and malnutrition situation linked to a prolonged dry spell could trigger a humanitarian crisis in a region that is yet to weather COVID-19 aftershocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 30 million people across the horn of the African region are already food insecure and require urgent assistance even as conflicts, pandemic and climate change undermine their resilience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The region has experienced depressed rains since the beginning of the year thereby jeopardizing livelihoods of subsistence farmers and pastoralists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the latest IGAD forecast, the start of the October-December short rains season in the region could be delayed by two weeks, with many countries receiving an average of 200 to 300 millimetres of rainfall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The bloc called on regional and national authorities to use the latest seasonal forecast to develop contingency plans, avert a widespread humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.china.org.cn\/world\/Off_the_Wire\/2021-08\/27\/content_77716821.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI &#8212; The greater horn of Africa region will experience suppressed rainfall from October to December, worsening an already fragile food and water security situation, says a forecast from Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) issued in Nairobi on Thursday. &#8220;A drier than usual season is forecasted across Eastern Africa from October to December 2021,&#8221; says &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-environment-and-disasters","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849","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=8849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8851,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8849\/revisions\/8851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}