{"id":95037,"date":"2026-02-20T13:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/95037\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T13:40:37","slug":"a-million-people-face-starvation-in-somalia-as-funding-dries-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/95037\/","title":{"rendered":"A Million People Face Starvation in Somalia as Funding Dries Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">One million people in Somalia are under threat of severe hunger amid a lack of funding to tackle disasters, according to a leading domestic charity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Scarce rain and warmer temperatures since September have caused drought conditions across the Horn of Africa, with the hottest regions of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya exceeding 2 degrees celsius (3.6 degrees fahrenheit) above the average, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu\/index_en\" title=\"link to website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Joint Research Center<\/a> of the European Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One million people in Somalia are under threat of severe hunger amid a lack of funding to tackle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51],"tags":[63,27976,65,1366,2584,3110,80,1984,27473,1367,1359,929],"class_list":["post-95037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-somalia","tag-africa","tag-equality","tag-ethiopia","tag-europe","tag-food","tag-government","tag-kenya","tag-somalia","tag-stocks","tag-united-kingdom","tag-united-nations","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116103244871515368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}