{"id":112192,"date":"2022-05-14T16:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-14T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112192"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T19:23:05","slug":"bbc-east-africa-drought-the-suffering-here-has-no-equal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112192","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) East Africa drought: &#8216;The suffering here has no equal&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Families have become desperate for food and water. Millions of children are malnourished. Livestock, which pastoralist families rely on for food and livelihoods, have died.<\/p>\n<p>The drought stretches far beyond this small Kenyan village and the UN&#8217;s World Food Programme says up to 20 million people in East Africa are at risk of severe hunger.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia is battling the worst drought in almost half a century and in Somalia 40% of the population are at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-61437239\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018The world is not looking this way\u2019: a fourth season of failed rains is causing one of the worst droughts East Africa has seen in decades.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jMb6HdnIxp\">https:\/\/t.co\/jMb6HdnIxp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Claes (@TomClaes5) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomClaes5\/status\/1525766607695495171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Families have become desperate for food and water. Millions of children are malnourished. Livestock, which pastoralist families rely on for food and livelihoods, have died. The drought stretches far beyond this small Kenyan village and the UN&#8217;s World Food Programme<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=112192\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,115,100,683,140,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-climate-change-weather","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-ecology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112195,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112192\/revisions\/112195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}