{"id":2640,"date":"2012-12-05T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daafeet.com\/?p=2640"},"modified":"2012-12-05T15:38:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T15:38:52","slug":"2640","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/2012\/12\/05\/2640\/","title":{"rendered":"UN holds funding appeal in Mogadishu"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 The United Nations has launched its aid appeal for Somalia in the capital, Mogadishu, for the first time in two decades.<\/p>\n

The U.N. on Tuesday said that $1.3 billion is needed for programs from 2013-2015 that will assist 3.8 million people.<\/p>\n

The acting humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, Stefano Porretti, said that while the humanitarian situation in Somalia remains critical, the improvement in food stocks and new-found security in the capital present an opportunity to break the cycle of recurring crises brought on by drought and conflict.<\/p>\n

He said it was “imperative” that the world continue to support humanitarian work in Somalia.<\/p>\n

The U.N. has faced criticism for operating its Somalia aid operations from neighboring Kenya. But recently the U.N. and other aid groups have begun to move back into Mogadishu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) \u2014 The United Nations has launched its aid appeal for Somalia in the capital, Mogadishu, for the first time in two decades. The U.N. on Tuesday said that $1.3 billion is needed for programs from 2013-2015 that will assist 3.8 million people. The acting humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, Stefano Porretti, said that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s89N1L-2640","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.daafeet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}