{"id":174931,"date":"2024-06-21T01:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-wfp-scaling-up-as-hunger-catastrophe-looms\/"},"modified":"2024-06-21T01:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T23:15:42","slug":"sudan-wfp-scaling-up-as-hunger-catastrophe-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-wfp-scaling-up-as-hunger-catastrophe-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: WFP Scaling Up As Hunger Catastrophe Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">World Food Programme boosting operations to support an additional 5 million people by the end of the year &#8211; and avert famine in the war-torn country<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/countries\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Food Programme<\/a> food security analysis has identified 44 hunger hotspot locations in Sudan &#8211; largely in areas of active fighting such as Khartoum, Kordofan, Darfur and Gezira &#8211; in which 2.6 million people are at high risk of falling into IPC5 conditions (red alert on the global standard for measuring hunger). Urgent humanitarian assistance is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406200675.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>World Food Programme boosting operations to support an additional 5 million people by the end of the year &#8211; and avert famine in the war-torn country World Food Programme food security analysis has identified 44 hunger hotspot locations in Sudan &#8211; largely in areas of active fighting such as Khartoum, Kordofan, Darfur and Gezira &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":174932,"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":[258,256,27466,6223,12647,257,35969,254,4708,1613,1639],"class_list":["post-174931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catastrophe","tag-hunger","tag-looms","tag-news","tag-scaling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-wfp"],"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\/174931","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=174931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}