{"id":7964,"date":"2018-10-15T14:42:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T06:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2018-10-15T14:42:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T06:42:43","slug":"2-million-affected-by-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/2-million-affected-by-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Million Affected by Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Afghanistan, 9 Oct 2018<\/strong> \u2013 Approximately 2 million people are affected by drought, of whom 1.4 million people are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Approximately 253,600 people are currently displaced due to drought across the Western Region of Afghanistan, of whom 75,000 are in Herat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At least 20 out of 34 provinces in Afghanistan are facing severe drought as declared by the government and requested international community\u2019s support.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The drought has further intensified the existing humanitarian situation which affected Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), refugee returnees from Pakistan and Iran and ongoing conflict in majority provinces of Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamic Relief (IR) Afghanistan was initially requested by Emergency Shelter &amp; Non-Food Items (ESNFI) cluster to provide assistance to the IDPs who desperately need urgent shelter in Herat Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">IR Afghanistan has also proposed an intervention in Bamyan and Balkh provinces as there exists operational capacity and operational presence. Among the needs saw are food supplies and protection initiatives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan, 9 Oct 2018 \u2013 Approximately 2 million people are affected by drought, of whom 1.4 million people are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. &nbsp; Approximately 253,600 people are currently displaced due to drought across the Western Region of Afghanistan, of whom 75,000 are in Herat. &nbsp; At least 20 out of 34 provinces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7966,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions\/7966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}