{"id":1712,"date":"2019-06-05T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2019-06-05T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T16:55:00","slug":"un-warns-of-famine-threat-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"UN Warns of Famine Threat in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WARNING.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1713 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/WARNING.jpg\" alt=\"WARNING\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. humanitarian chief appealed Wednesday for urgently needed funding to prevent wide-scale hunger in the Horn of Africa after another failed rainy season.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Lowcock said he would release $45 million from the U.N.\u2019s emergency fund to help avert a humanitarian crisis in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, but that about $700 million more is needed this year to prevent another famine like Somalia saw in 2011, when a quarter of a million people died.<\/p>\n<p>Of the allocated funds, $30 million is for Somalia, $10 million for Ethiopia and $5 million is for Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m particularly worried about Somalia, where by the end of the year, we think there could be 5.4 million people in dire straits, 2.2 million of whom could be in a really acute situation,\u201d Lowcock told a small group of reporters. \u201cI don\u2019t think the world wants to tolerate another famine in Somalia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.N. humanitarian chief appealed Wednesday for urgently needed funding to prevent wide-scale hunger in the Horn of Africa after another failed rainy season. Mark Lowcock said he would release $45 million from the U.N.\u2019s emergency fund to help avert a humanitarian crisis in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, but that about $700 million more is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1713,"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\/1712"}],"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=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}