{"id":28964,"date":"2011-09-03T10:06:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-03T14:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=28964"},"modified":"2011-09-03T10:06:43","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T14:06:43","slug":"cholera-claims-21-lives-in-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=28964","title":{"rendered":"Cholera claims 21 lives in Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 21 Somali children have died and nearly 440 others hospitalized due to cholera in the famine-stricken African country, Press TV reported. \u00a0\u00a0<em>(Photo: A paramedic attends to internally displaced children suffering from cholera inside a ward at Banadir hospital in Somalia&#8217;s capital Mogadishu)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 21 children lost their lives Thursday morning in southern Mogadishu as their families were unable to provide medicines for them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doctors say that within the last three hours more than 440 Somali children affected by cholera were rushed to Banadir hospital for emergency treatment in southern Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, thousands of drought victims have started to abandon south Mogadishu refugee camps after humanitarian aids were stolen by Somali government officials.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Drought and famine have affected millions of people across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia has been the hardest-hit country in what is being described as the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the United Nations, a quarter of Somalia&#8217;s 9.9 million population are either internally displaced or living outside the country as refugees.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UN has declared famine in five regions of Somalia and says that the international humanitarian response to the crisis has been insufficient.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The United Nations says that more than thirteen children out of every 10,000 aged less than five die in the Somalia famine zone every day.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 21 Somali children have died and nearly 440 others hospitalized due to cholera in the famine-stricken African country, Press TV reported. \u00a0\u00a0(Photo: A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[751,1],"tags":[9931,8031],"class_list":["post-28964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-cholera","tag-mogadishu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}