{"id":174431,"date":"2024-06-13T12:59:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-waiting-would-be-death-sentence-for-millions-on-brink-of-starvation-relief-chief\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T12:59:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T10:59:05","slug":"sudan-waiting-would-be-death-sentence-for-millions-on-brink-of-starvation-relief-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-waiting-would-be-death-sentence-for-millions-on-brink-of-starvation-relief-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Waiting Would Be &#8216;Death Sentence&#8217; for Millions On Brink of Starvation &#8211; Relief Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/news\/g7-leaders-can-and-must-prevent-manmade-famine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Millions of people are teetering on the brink of starvation<\/a> as conflict rages across many corners of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sudan and Gaza, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">&#8220;War is pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation. Only technicalities prevent famines from being declared, as people are already dying of hunger,&#8221; said Mr. Griffiths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;Waiting for an official declaration of famine before acting would be a death sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406130264.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millions of people are teetering on the brink of starvation as conflict rages across many corners of the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in Sudan and Gaza, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday. &#8220;War is pushing millions of people to the brink of starvation. Only technicalities prevent famines from being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":174432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,10134,6510,6974,7033,257,10864,7355,254,6224,4708,1613,17365],"class_list":["post-174431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brink","tag-chief","tag-death","tag-millions","tag-news","tag-relief","tag-sentence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starvation","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-waiting"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}