{"id":6772,"date":"2019-11-25T10:31:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T07:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6772"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"mobile-phone-warnings-set-to-aid-climate-vulnerable-somali-nomads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/25\/mobile-phone-warnings-set-to-aid-climate-vulnerable-somali-nomads\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Phone Warnings Set To Aid Climate-Vulnerable Somali Nomads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Rosa Furneaux<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\ncentral Somalia&#8217;s Beledweyne district, families still reeling from food\nshortages and livestock deaths after another year of poor rains were surprised\nby a new disaster last month: brutal floods that completely submerged homes\nafter the Shabelle River burst its banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Across\nthe district, 230,000 people were driven from their homes, the U.N. refugee\nagency UNHCR reported, some fleeing through neck-deep water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The\nsituation was devastating,&#8221; Ahmed Omar Ibrahim, an aid worker with Save\nthe Children, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nthe flood&#8217;s aftermath, &#8220;all the people (were) out from the town,\nscattered.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\nsuch disasters may soon no longer catch people unaware. A mobile phone alert\nsystem is set to roll out across Somalia, designed to text residents a warning\nbefore they are hit by droughts or floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such\nwarning systems are increasingly common around the world, but the Somali effort\nwill mark the first time a nationwide mobile phone-based alert system has been\nset up in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the United Nations Development\nProgramme (UNDP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nalert system is part of a $10 million project, launched last week by UNDP and\nthe Somali government, to improve the conflict-hit East African nation&#8217;s\nresilience to growing climate threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\nincludes efforts to educate pastoralists on better managing their resources and\nplans to build new weather stations, weather monitoring systems, and water\nstorage dams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officials expect the mobile alert system to be fully operational in two to three years\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.trust.org\/item\/20191121155048-sw6mp\/\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rosa Furneaux In central Somalia&#8217;s Beledweyne district, families still reeling from food shortages and livestock deaths after another year of poor rains were surprised by a new disaster last&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6773,"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-6772","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\/6772","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=6772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}