{"id":9356,"date":"2021-12-20T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2021-12-21T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T10:35:00","slug":"un-seeks-1-5-billion-to-help-millions-in-drought-stricken-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/12\/20\/un-seeks-1-5-billion-to-help-millions-in-drought-stricken-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"UN seeks $1.5 billion to help millions in drought-stricken Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text en\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212; <\/strong>The UN humanitarian action office on Monday announced that it launched a 2022 humanitarian response plan for Somalia, seeking $1.5 billion to assist 5.5 million people in need.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The figure includes 3.2 million women and girls, 3.5 million children, 8,000 people with disabilities, and 2,000 elderly, according a statement by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Timely and early funding is critical in saving lives now,&#8221; the UN said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The global organization has released $17 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund, bringing the funding for Somalia this year to $52 million. It said almost $60 million have been provided by donors to Somalia humanitarian fund as well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some areas in Somalia are witnessing the worst drought in four decades, according to Oxfam International, a global NGO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia declared a state of humanitarian emergency due to drought in November and called for an urgent humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN in December called for an urgent action to address the critical need for water due to the worsening situation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More than 2 million people in 66 districts are in acute need and will require immediate lifesaving water, sanitation and hygiene services for the next six months, according to the UN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among the most at risk are 1.7 million children and women who are exposed to protection risks due to limited water resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The worst affected regions include Gedo, Bay, Bakol, Lower Jubba, Galgadud, Mudug and parts of Bari, Nugaal, Sool, Sanaag, Togdheer and Hiraan regions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia faces third consecutive failed rainy season for the first time in over 30 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sourceTextDiv\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Anadolu Agency\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/africa\/un-seeks-15m-to-help-millions-in-drought-hit-somalia\/2452622\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; The UN humanitarian action office on Monday announced that it launched a 2022 humanitarian response plan for Somalia, seeking $1.5 billion to assist 5.5 million people in need. The figure includes 3.2 million women and girls, 3.5 million children, 8,000 people with disabilities, and 2,000 elderly, according a statement by the UN Office &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-international-humanitarian-law","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356","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=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9365,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}