{"id":981047,"date":"2022-02-08T08:12:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T08:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/un-report-reveals-somalian-drought-leaves-4-3m-people-without-water\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T08:12:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T08:12:46","slug":"un-report-reveals-somalian-drought-leaves-4-3m-people-without-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/08\/un-report-reveals-somalian-drought-leaves-4-3m-people-without-water\/","title":{"rendered":"UN report reveals Somalian drought leaves 4.3m people without water"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mogadishu – An estimated 4.3 million people have been affected by the severe drought which is ravaging several parts of Somalia, up from 3.2 million a month ago, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.<\/p>\n

It said the escalating drought has seen some 271,000 have abandoned their homes in search of water, food and pasture, reports Xinhua news agency. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“With the next rainy season not expected until April 2022, Somalia is staring at a potential catastrophe,” tge OCHA warned in its latest drought response released in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia.<\/p>\n

It said the UN Central Emergency Response Fund has allocated $25 million for the drought response and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund has complemented this funding with an allocation of $6 million; a second allocation is underway. <\/p>\n

Additional funding for priority sectors is urgently required to save lives and livelihoods, including substantive and early funding for the 2022 Somalia Humanitarian Response Plan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Severe water shortages and inadequate access to sanitation and hygiene facilities have heightened the risk of disease outbreaks,” the OCHA said. <\/p>\n

It warned that the drought is projected to intensify as Somalia faces the risk of a fourth consecutive failed rainy season in early 2022.<\/p>\n

The UN agency said the drought is compounding severe vulnerabilities and humanitarian needs caused by decades of protracted conflict and insecurity, climate shocks and disease outbreaks. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It said thousands of children have dropped out of school as parents can no longer afford to pay fees, adding that food insecurity is increasing and malnutrition is high in drought-affected areas.<\/p>\n

According to the OCHA, local communities, authorities and humanitarian partners are scaling up assistance and intensifying resource mobilisation, guided by the drought response plan. <\/p>\n

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Mogadishu – An estimated 4.3 million people have been affected by the severe drought which is ravaging several parts of Somalia, up from 3.2 million a month ago, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. It said the escalating drought has seen some 271,000 have abandoned their homes in search of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}