{"id":175532,"date":"2024-06-29T13:33:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-hunger-spreads-to-capital-and-former-breadbasket\/"},"modified":"2024-06-29T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:33:30","slug":"sudan-hunger-spreads-to-capital-and-former-breadbasket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-hunger-spreads-to-capital-and-former-breadbasket\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Hunger Spreads to Capital and Former Breadbasket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em><em>A United Nations report has found that severe food shortages have spread to 14 regions across Sudan, including previously unaffected areas. More than half of the country&#8217;s population faces &#8220;crisis or worse&#8221; conditions.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">A United Nations report on Thursday said some 8.5 million people were facing extreme food shortage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/why-is-the-world-ignoring-the-sudan-civil-war\/a-69364378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan after 14 months of conflict<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The document said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/sudan-faces-catastrophic-hunger-as-conflict-blocks-aid\/a-68646583\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hunger<\/a> has now spread to the capital, Khartoum, and Jazira province, which was once dubbed Sudan&#8217;s breadbasket.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><strong>What the study&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406280093.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>A United Nations report has found that severe food shortages have spread to 14 regions across Sudan, including previously unaffected areas. More than half of the country&#8217;s population faces &#8220;crisis or worse&#8221; conditions. A United Nations report on Thursday said some 8.5 million people were facing extreme food shortage in Sudan after 14 months of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":175533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650950:62067bdf2613095d51804837ffa7ad53:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,19179,6959,6223,257,254,13665,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-175532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breadbasket","tag-capital","tag-hunger","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spreads","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650950:62067bdf2613095d51804837ffa7ad53:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175532","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=175532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}