The death toll from heavy rains and floods in Somalia has climbed to 96, the National Disaster Management Agency of the African nation announced Thursday, adding that over 2 million people have been affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The heavy rainfall in Somalia is expected to impact up to 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of farmland, local authorities have confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Somali Government has called on the local community and aid agencies to scale up their support in helping people affected by the El Nino-induced floods amid growing fears for a worsening crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The death toll from heavy rains and floods in Somalia has climbed to 96, the National Disaster Management Agency of the African nation announced Thursday, adding that over 2 million people have been affected. The heavy rainfall in Somalia is expected to impact up to 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of farmland, local authorities …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":98659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n