Mogadishu:- Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, announced that the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, will provide more than 41 million dollars in funding to save lives and meet humanitarian needs in Somalia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe humanitarian situation in Somalia is as dire as any in the world right now,\u201d said Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield during a speech on food security in Mogadishu. The combination of the climate crisis; the supply chain crisis sparked by COVID; and conflicts \u2013 like the one caused by al-Shabaab, has brought that horrific word back to Somalia \u2013 famine.<\/p>\n
\u201cFamine is the ultimate failure of the international community.\u202f\u202fIn a world abundant with food, entire communities should never, ever starve to death.\u202fI refuse to accept that failure,\u201d said Ambassador Thomas-Greenfield.\u202f\u201cWhen the longest drought in Somalia\u2019s record led to initial famine projections, the United States took action.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since \u200bthe beginning of \u200b2022\u2019s fiscal year, the United States has provided 1.3 billion dollars of life-saving assistance to Somalia.\u202fU.S. funding last year accounted for more than 80 percent of the World Food Program\u2019s emergency operations in the Horn of Africa.\u202fFour times greater than the contributions of all other countries combined.\u202fThat aid has brought food, water, and shelter to the Somali people.\u202fAs the United States surges support, it continues to work with all levels of Somalia\u2019s government to increase security, and ensure humanitarian and development resources reach communities recently liberated from al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n
This new assistance comes as the drought intensifies following a fifth failed rainy season, putting people at risk of further devastation and despair. Today\u2019s new funding bolsters U.S. famine prevention efforts with a targeted focus on addressing extreme food gaps, treating severe malnutrition in women and children, and combating the current outbreak of deadly diseases like measles and cholera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mogadishu:- Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Representative to the United Nations, announced that the United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, will provide more than 41 million dollars in funding to save lives and meet humanitarian needs in Somalia. \u201cThe humanitarian situation in Somalia is as dire as any in the world right now,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":412830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-412829","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\/412829","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=412829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412831,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412829\/revisions\/412831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}