{"id":3001,"date":"2019-06-09T07:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T07:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"un-warns-of-severe-hunger-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/09\/un-warns-of-severe-hunger-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Warns Of Severe Hunger In Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BY AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">United Nations (United States) (AFP) &#8211; Somalia is\nfacing severe hunger due to one of the worst droughts in decades, the UN aid\nchief warned Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What was forecast to be an average rainy\nseason in Somalia is now one of the driest on record in over 35 years,&#8221;\nsaid Mark Lowcock, the UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN has released $45 million in emergency\nfunding to scale up food, water and other humanitarian supplies to Somalia as\nwell as parts of Ethiopia and Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bulk of the funds, $30 million, will help\nSomalia, where 2.2 million people are expected to face severe hunger by\nSeptember &#8212; an increase of 40 percent from January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An additional 3.2 million people in Somalia are\nexpected to struggle to meet their basic food needs over that same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lowcock said in a statement that drought in\nSomalia was intensifying faster than has been seen over the last decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The failed April to June rainy season comes on the\nheels of below-average short rains during the season between October and\nDecember.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Communities that were already vulnerable due\nto past droughts are again facing severe hunger and water scarcity and are at\nrisk from deadly communicable diseases,&#8221; said Lowcock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Aid agencies in Somalia are also\noverstretched and grappling with a severe lack of funding,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN is requesting $1.09 billion this year for\nits humanitarian response plan for Somalia, but only 22 percent of that amount\nhas been raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Somalia suffered a heavy toll from two major\nfamines in 1992 and 2011 caused by drought and exacerbated by conflict. Read\nthe <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/un-warns-severe-hunger-somalia-182407598.html\">original article<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo\nNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY AFP United Nations (United States) (AFP) &#8211; Somalia is facing severe hunger due to one of the worst droughts in decades, the UN aid chief warned Wednesday. &#8220;What was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}