{"id":735,"date":"2015-07-18T18:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T18:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=735"},"modified":"2015-07-18T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T18:21:35","slug":"the-humanitarian-situation-in-a-besieged-town-located-in-south-western-somalia-is-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"The humanitarian situation in a besieged town located in South-Western Somalia is getting worse."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SMM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-736\" src=\"http:\/\/mmdsom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SMM-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"SMM\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The humanitarian situation in a besieged town located in South-Western Somalia is getting worse, as residents and local administration express deep concerns over an imminent disaster. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hudur district of Bakol region, which is\u00a0some 376 kilometers (233 miles) northwest of Mogadishu, has been completely surrounded by the al-Shabaab insurgents since April last year after the African Union and Somali government forces took its control without resistance from the terrorists<\/p>\n<p>Authorities on ground have failed to address the situation though calling for International aid organisations to intervene. But there has been little attention from the humanitarian agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Mayor of Hudur district Mustafa Aden Bariyow said that the situation is becoming \u201cdesperate\u201d and all of the town\u2019s residents were living in alarming conditions, without electricity or access to food and medicine, while speaking to the BBC Somali Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019There is only one school here which is still providing some basic education and the health centres are facing an acute lack of medical workers and supplies yet others have been already closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2019 Our enemies [Al Shabaab] have blocked all roads but we managed to forcibly open one road recently,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Somali government has been flying in food, medicine and weapons, but residents say the aid isn\u2019t enough, and that many are falling victim to disease.<\/p>\n<p>The militants have on several occasion warned businessmen not to supply food and other essential things to the town, otherwise they will be targeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The humanitarian situation in a besieged town located in South-Western Somalia is getting worse, as residents and local administration express deep concerns over an imminent disaster. Hudur district of Bakol region, which is\u00a0some 376 kilometers (233 miles) northwest of Mogadishu, has been completely surrounded by the al-Shabaab insurgents since April last year after the African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"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=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmdsom.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}