{"id":9508,"date":"2022-01-11T21:30:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=9508"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T09:09:00","slug":"somali-govt-distributes-food-aid-in-drought-stricken-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2022\/01\/11\/somali-govt-distributes-food-aid-in-drought-stricken-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali gov\u2019t distributes food aid in drought-stricken areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> The Somali government has on Tuesday begun distributing an aid shipment from received from the UAE to assist with the country\u2019s current drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">Somali Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Khadija Mohamed Diriye said the government has started to distribute the aid to Garbaharey, Beledweyne and Hudur which are one of the worst affected areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">She noted that the rest of the aid will be distributed to people with special needs in the Benadir region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">On Friday, Somali PM accompanied humanitarian minister alongside other government dignitaries received an aid shipment from the UAE to assist with the country\u2019s current drought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s2\">The UN estimates the drought is affecting about 2.3 million people and has forced more than 100,000 from their homes in search of food and water.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Source: Radio Dalsan\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Origin: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.radiodalsan.com\/72404\/2022\/01\/somali-govt-distributes-food-aid-in-drought-stricken-areas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">View original<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; The Somali government has on Tuesday begun distributing an aid shipment from received from the UAE to assist with the country\u2019s current drought. Somali Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Khadija Mohamed Diriye said the government has started to distribute the aid to Garbaharey, Beledweyne and Hudur which are one of the worst affected areas. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news","category-relief"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508","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=9508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9510,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9508\/revisions\/9510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}