{"id":490,"date":"2006-01-07T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2006-01-07T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/07\/another_famine_in_east_africa"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:22:08","slug":"another_famine_in_east_africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/07\/another_famine_in_east_africa","title":{"rendered":"Another famine in East Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting that there are severe food shortages in Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti, with corpses of animals lying everywhere in Kenya and 2 million people in Somalia alone needing urgent food aid.  So remember these folks as you celebrate Eid!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BBC NEWS | World | Africa | Starvation looms in African Horn\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/4587584.stm\">BBC NEWS: Starvation looms in African Horn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And more from Africa: the Saudis have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/africa\/4587650.stm\">turned back a planeload of Nigerian pilgrims<\/a> after the plane entered Saudi airspace, due to a dispute over money with the Nigerian government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC is reporting that there are severe food shortages in Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti, with corpses of animals lying everywhere in Kenya and 2 million people in Somalia alone needing urgent food aid.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42636,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/42636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}