{"id":9388,"date":"2026-07-04T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:27:08","slug":"somali-disaster-management-agency-launches-first-phase-of-food-assistance-for-drought-affected-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/somali-disaster-management-agency-launches-first-phase-of-food-assistance-for-drought-affected-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Disaster Management Agency Launches First Phase of Food Assistance for Drought-Affected Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"17\" data-end=\"276\">The <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Somali Disaster Management Agency<\/span><\/span> (SoDMA) today distributed various food items to vulnerable families affected by the ongoing drought. The beneficiaries were Somali families displaced from different regions of the country due to the prolonged drought.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"278\" data-end=\"516\">This assistance marked the first phase of a relief operation implemented in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ceelasha Biyaha<\/span><\/span>, benefiting vulnerable households whose livelihoods, as well as their livestock, have been severely affected by the drought.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"920\">Speaking at the event were Sahra Ali Yusuf, Director of the Relief Department at <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Somali Disaster Management Agency<\/span><\/span>, the Humanitarian Coordinator for <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Lower Shabelle Region<\/span><\/span>, and the Deputy Chairperson for Social Affairs of the local administration. They stated that the food assistance program will be expanded to reach drought-affected communities across most regions of the country.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"920\">\n<p data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9389\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/737191128_1202053155399807_2188241892627218099_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9390\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/737674871_814719161606412_1854429220437993484_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9391\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/739175457_1502938240988479_4247794673943510152_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9392\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/738465230_2589386214846673_2025233824221347018_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9393\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/735018303_1323345086624029_5948978275561472361_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9394\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/736074334_28301594709428214_4470385922886331511_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9395\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/738504227_1367697498714236_6754909251381265741_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA) today distributed various food items to vulnerable families affected by the ongoing drought. The beneficiaries were Somali families displaced from different regions of the country due to the prolonged drought. This assistance marked the first phase of a relief operation implemented in Ceelasha Biyaha, benefiting vulnerable households whose livelihoods, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9396,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions\/9396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}