{"id":9733,"date":"2026-08-05T13:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/?p=9733"},"modified":"2026-08-05T13:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:51:26","slug":"sodma-commissioner-and-plan-international-country-director-call-for-urgent-action-to-address-somalias-humanitarian-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/sodma-commissioner-and-plan-international-country-director-call-for-urgent-action-to-address-somalias-humanitarian-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"SoDMA Commissioner and Plan International Country Director Call for Urgent Action to Address Somalia\u2019s Humanitarian Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"145\" data-end=\"355\">The Commissioner of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Somali Disaster Management Agency<\/span><\/span> (SoDMA), Mr. Mahmoud Moallim Abdulle, today received Ms. Reena Ghelani, Head of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Plan International<\/span><\/span>, at the agency&#8217;s headquarters.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"650\">The meeting focused on Somalia&#8217;s humanitarian situation, with particular attention to areas still affected by drought, weather forecasts indicating an increasing risk of <strong data-start=\"527\" data-end=\"538\">El Ni\u00f1o<\/strong>-related rainfall, and the potential threat of a desert locust outbreak following the anticipated El Ni\u00f1o rains.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"652\" data-end=\"848\">Both sides also agreed on the importance of strengthening cooperation in humanitarian response and enhancing disaster preparedness to reduce the impact of future emergencies on Somali communities.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"850\" data-end=\"1048\">Commissioner Mahmoud Moallim Abdulle emphasized that Somalia continues to face extensive humanitarian needs and called on the international community to strengthen its support for the Somali people.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1050\" data-end=\"1362\">For her part, Ms. Reena Ghelani noted that she had visited humanitarian crisis-affected areas, including <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Baidoa<\/span><\/span>, where she witnessed the scale of humanitarian needs firsthand. She stressed the urgent need for life-saving assistance to protect vulnerable communities across Somalia.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1050\" data-end=\"1362\">\n<p data-start=\"1050\" data-end=\"1362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9734\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/762974349_2892842561099617_8485058408479279196_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9735\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/765929622_1064518973186935_2427396013738980430_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9736\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/763120163_27559034160433620_1647366060914191005_n-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9737\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/763761955_1723707775519587_436639909476047366_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9738\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/763847767_1917901908849326_7883061229696302314_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9739\" src=\"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/763722399_2033427834045263_658972373093902437_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner of the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA), Mr. Mahmoud Moallim Abdulle, today received Ms. Reena Ghelani, Head of Plan International, at the agency&#8217;s headquarters. The meeting focused on Somalia&#8217;s humanitarian situation, with particular attention to areas still affected by drought, weather forecasts indicating an increasing risk of El Ni\u00f1o-related rainfall, and the potential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9739,"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-9733","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\/9733","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=9733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9741,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9733\/revisions\/9741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sodma.gov.so\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}