{"id":20930,"date":"2020-07-24T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T05:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/24\/a-critical-situation-bangladesh-in-crisis-as-monsoon-floods-follow-super-cyclone"},"modified":"2020-07-24T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T05:30:07","slug":"a-critical-situation-bangladesh-in-crisis-as-monsoon-floods-follow-super-cyclone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=20930","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A critical situation&#8217;: Bangladesh in crisis as monsoon floods follow super-cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite flood planning efforts hundreds have been killed and millions hit as third of land is submerged by non-stop rain<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh could be plunged into a humanitarian crisis as it undergoes the most prolonged monsoon flooding in decades while it is still recovering from the effects of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2020\/may\/21\/super-cyclone-amphan-batters-india-and-bangladesh-video\">super-cyclone Amphan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the UN has lauding its new initiatives for early intervention aimed at preparing communities for crisis, <a href=\"https:\/\/media.ifrc.org\/ifrc\/press-release\/south-asia-floods-9-6-million-people-swamped-humanitarian-crisis-deepens\/\">550 people<\/a> have been killed and 9.6 million affected by the disaster in Bangladesh, Nepal and north-eastern India, according to the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/jul\/24\/a-critical-situation-bangladesh-in-crisis-as-monsoon-floods-follow-super-cyclone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite flood planning efforts hundreds have been killed and millions hit as third of land is submerged by non-stop rainBangladesh could be plunged into a humanitarian crisis as it undergoes the most prolonged monsoon flooding in decades while it is st&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,1588,326,65,313,59,62,157,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-climate-aid","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-flooding","category-global-development","category-india","category-natural-disasters-and-extreme-weather","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20931,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20930\/revisions\/20931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}