{"id":83510,"date":"2025-03-12T08:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/?p=83510"},"modified":"2025-03-12T08:59:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T08:59:01","slug":"severe-water-shortage-in-ethiopias-somali-regional-state-affects-nearly-2-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/severe-water-shortage-in-ethiopias-somali-regional-state-affects-nearly-2-million-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Water Shortage In Ethiopia\u2019s Somali Regional State Affects Nearly 2 Million People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A severe water shortage has reportedly hit 55 districts in the Somali Regional State impacting approximately 1.9 million people, according to the region\u2019s Disaster Risk Management Bureau head, Ahmed Yasin Sheikh Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Yasin stated that the entire Somali Regional State is experiencing drought, which has not only affected grazing areas for livestock but has also been worsened by the lack of water, creating an even more dire situation for residents.<\/p>\n<p>The minister emphasized that during such crises, the burden increases significantly as vast areas are affected simultaneously, leaving people with no access to water sources.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of the Somali Regional State have been struggling with recurring droughts and have expressed concerns about the lack of sufficient government intervention to help them recover from the ongoing hardships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A severe water shortage has reportedly hit 55 districts in the Somali Regional State impacting approximately 1.9 million people, according to the region\u2019s Disaster Risk Management Bureau head, Ahmed Yasin Sheikh Ibrahim. Ahmed Yasin stated that the entire Somali Regional State is experiencing drought, which has not only affected grazing areas for livestock but has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":83511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83512,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83510\/revisions\/83512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}