{"id":1150,"date":"2016-09-20T11:31:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:31:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:31:40","slug":"herders-in-somalias-northeastern-regions-find-dry-reservoirs-after-long-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"HERDERS IN SOMALIA&#8217;S NORTHEASTERN REGIONS FIND DRY RESERVOIRS AFTER LONG TREK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?attachment_id=1151\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1151 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Xoolo-dhaqato1-420x236.jpg\" alt=\"xoolo-dhaqato1\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Xoolo-dhaqato1-420x236.jpg 420w, https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Xoolo-dhaqato1-744x419.jpg 744w, https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Xoolo-dhaqato1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Xoolo-dhaqato1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a>Around 300 desperate pastoralist families fleeing drought in northeastern Somalia\u2019s Bari, Nugal and Sanag regions have descended on Karin-dabeylweyn locality, 70 km from Lasanod town in Sool region, looking for water.<\/p>\n<p>According to local elders and migrating herders, around 100 families are still in Karin-dabeylweyn while the other 200 have migrated further afield due to the general water shortage in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual migration of these herders has taken place over the past three months. It has brought crisis to the locals of the area.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein Hersi Jama, an elder in Karin-d<\/p>\n<p>abeylweyn, told Radio Ergo that the influx of pastoralist families had created great concern as the water the locals had stored in 80 underground reservoirs (\u2018berkeds\u2019) had now been used up.<\/p>\n<p>He said the only source of water remaining was in 20 privately owned \u2018berkeds\u2019, where they had to buy water both for their livestock and for themselves. There are no wells.<\/p>\n<p>The area received some rainfall four months ago.\u00a0 The huge influx from other areas had now precipitated a pasture shortage for the animals as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the situation will get worse than it is now if water trucking is not started as soon as possible,&#8221; Hussein said.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Ergo\u2019s local reporter in Lasanodo said those coming into the area had been affected by successive droughts and their animals were weak and sick.<\/p>\n<p>Hussein said the locals had tried to help the needy as much as they could, by selling water to them for $2 rather than $3 a jerry can. But resources were running thin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 300 desperate pastoralist families fleeing drought in northeastern Somalia\u2019s Bari, Nugal and Sanag regions have descended on Karin-dabeylweyn locality, 70 km from Lasanod town in Sool region, looking for water. According to local elders and migrating herders, around 100 families are still in Karin-dabeylweyn while the other 200 have migrated further afield due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1152,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}