{"id":12085,"date":"2023-11-26T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/26\/death-toll-from-flooding-in-somalia-climbs-to-nearly-100\/"},"modified":"2023-11-26T13:46:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T13:46:32","slug":"death-toll-from-flooding-in-somalia-climbs-to-nearly-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/26\/death-toll-from-flooding-in-somalia-climbs-to-nearly-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from flooding in Somalia climbs to nearly 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The number of people killed by floods from heavy rains in Somalia has risen to 96, state news agency SONNA said on Saturday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      \u201cSomalia\u2019s flood death toll climbs to 96,\u201d SONNA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding the figure had been confirmed by Mahamuud Moallim, the head of the country\u2019s disaster management agency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Like the rest of east and Horn of Africa, Somalia has been battered by relentless heavy rains that began in October, caused by the El Nino and Indian Ocean Dipole weather phenomena.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Both are climate patterns that impact ocean surface temperatures and cause above-average rainfall.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The flooding has been described as the worst in decades and has displaced about 700,000 people, according to the United Nations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The intense rains have unleashed widespread flooding across the country, triggering displacement and exacerbating an already existing humanitarian crisis caused by years of insurgency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In neighboring Kenya the floods have so far killed 76 people, according to the Kenyan Red Cross, and also unleashed widespread displacement, destruction of roads and bridges and left many residents without shelter, drinking and food supplies, according to the charity M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF).  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of people killed by floods from heavy rains in Somalia has risen to 96, state news agency SONNA said on Saturday. \u201cSomalia\u2019s flood death toll climbs to 96,\u201d SONNA said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, adding the figure had been confirmed by Mahamuud Moallim, the head of the country\u2019s disaster management <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12086,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}