{"id":118480,"date":"2021-04-14T09:18:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T01:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118480"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:18:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T01:18:55","slug":"un-all-of-st-vincent-without-clean-water-after-volcanic-eruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=118480","title":{"rendered":"UN: All of St Vincent without clean water after volcanic eruption"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/UN-All-of-St-Vincent-without-clean-water-after-volcanic-eruption-1231756?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/829\/82903344.295.jpg\" alt=\"According to reports, around 20,000 evacuees from the large island nation still need shelter\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>According to reports, around 20,000 evacuees from the large island nation still need shelter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KINGSTOWN, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The entire population of the Caribbean island of St Vincent has been left without clean water and electricity after last week&#8217;s eruption of the La Soufriere volcano, a UN spokesperson said.<br><br>In addition, around 20,000 evacuees from the large island nation are still in need of shelter, Stephane Dujarric said, citing reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).<br><br>The volcano, which lies in the north of the island, erupted last Friday, emitting a 10-kilometre-high column of smoke.<br><br>&#8220;The eruption has affected most livelihoods in the northern part of the island, including banana farming, with ash and lava flows hampering the movement of people and goods,&#8221; Dujarric said in a press briefing.<br><br>Tremors were still being felt over the weekend and there was another large explosion on Monday, according to the UWI research centre in Trinidad.<br><br>OCHA has warned that &#8220;explosions and accompanying ashfall, of similar or larger magnitude, are likely to continue to occur over the next few days.&#8221;<br>St Vincent, the main island of the state of St Vincent and the Grenadines, has a population of around 100,000.<br><br>According to the UN, some 3,500 people were taken into 85 emergency shelters.<br><br>The 1,178-metre-tall La Soufriere is the only active volcano on St Vincent. During an eruption in 1902, around 1,500 people died. The last eruption was 1979. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports, around 20,000 evacuees from the large island nation still need shelter KINGSTOWN, April 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The entire population of the Caribbean island of St Vincent has been left without clean water and electricity after last week&#8217;s eruption of the La Soufriere volcano, a UN spokesperson said. In addition, around 20,000 evacuees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":118481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/118481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=118480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=118480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}