{"id":407766,"date":"2021-12-02T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=407766"},"modified":"2021-12-02T12:31:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T12:31:00","slug":"turkish-aid-group-to-give-relief-amid-deadly-drought-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/turkish-aid-group-to-give-relief-amid-deadly-drought-in-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish aid group to give relief amid deadly drought in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/platform-cdn.sharethis.com\/img\/twitter.svg\" alt=\"twitter sharing button\" \/><span style=\"-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);\">A\u00a0<\/span>Turkish humanitarian aid group announced Tuesday that it will take part in an ongoing relief campaign in Somalia because of a climate change-related deadly drought that has killed at least six people in the past week.<\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<div id=\"st-1\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons st-left st-has-labels  st-inline-share-buttons st-animated\">\n<div class=\"st-btn         st-remove-label\" data-network=\"twitter\">&#8220;We are currently planning CR zones. We plan to donate food and water there. We regularly donate meat to the camps in Mogadishu and Baidoa every month,&#8221; IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation&#8217;s Somalia representative Hasan Demir told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p>He said the group is feeding 1,000 families every month in the Horn of the African country.<\/p>\n<p>The Gedo, Lower Juba and Bakol regions are the worst-hit areas as a mother, and five children have died due to lack of food and water, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>While livestock is dying in the hundreds, pastoralists face huge difficulties as the cattle market in parts of the country has crashed.<br \/>\nIf you manage to find a buyer, you will get less than $10 for a sheep or goat and less than $60 for cattle compared to $70 to $90 on average for sheep and goats and $350 to $400 on average for cattle, a community activist told Anadolu Agency.<br \/>\nSomalia has a population of more than 15.8 million, of which 60% live in rural areas as nomadic or semi-nomadic pastoralists. The climate plays a key role in the nation\u2019s economy and livelihoods as the economy is predominated by agricultural activities, according to the World Bank.<br \/>\nIn Somalia, climate change effects from droughts and floods pose the most severe hazards to the country as it is currently battling its worst drought in more than a decade.<br \/>\nThe government has already declared a state of humanitarian emergency because of the drought.<\/p>\n<p>President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed earlier this week urged immediate assistance.<br \/>\nThe number of people in need of humanitarian assistance is set to rise 30% next year from 5.9 million to 7.7 million, the UN warned earlier this month.<br \/>\nSource: AA<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Turkish humanitarian aid group announced Tuesday that it will take part in an ongoing relief campaign in Somalia because of a climate change-related deadly drought that has killed at least six people in the past week. &#8220;We are currently planning CR zones. We plan to donate food and water there. We regularly donate meat to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":407767,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-407766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407768,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407766\/revisions\/407768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}