{"id":12709,"date":"2019-05-07T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T14:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/over-500000-at-risk-in-drought-hit-namibia\/"},"modified":"2019-05-08T13:07:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T13:07:56","slug":"over-500000-at-risk-in-drought-hit-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/over-500000-at-risk-in-drought-hit-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"State Of Emergency In Namibia As Rains Fail To Materialise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Namibia Hit By Drought Again<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_12718\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12718\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12718\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Namibia-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Namibia-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Namibia-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Namibia-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Namibia-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Namibia-272x182.jpg 272w, https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Namibia.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: Ev Thomas\/Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the second time in three years, Namibia has been forced to declare a state f emergency due to another severe drought. This is becoming a recurring pattern and there has been an acute lack of rain in the region since 2013. Despite Namibia being a sparsely-populated country and not well disposed to agriculture it still relies on its own resources for about 30% of its food, and the Government has indicated that 20% of the population are not getting enough food. The Govt has announced an aid package both to provide food to those in need and for the Farmers affected &#8211; who have lost significant amounts of livestock due to the water shortage.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear whether global warming is behind this change in the weather pattern, however, it is unlikely to be helping,<\/p>\n<p>More on the crisis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/news\/africa\/namibia-declares-drought-a-national-disaster-22794293\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia Hit By Drought Again For the second time in three years, Namibia has been forced to declare a state f emergency due to another severe drought. This is becoming a recurring pattern and there has been an acute lack of rain in the region since 2013. Despite Namibia being a sparsely-populated country and not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[201,1170,1169],"class_list":["post-12709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide-news","tag-africa","tag-drought","tag-namibia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12719,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12709\/revisions\/12719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}