{"id":177167,"date":"2024-07-24T02:26:52","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T00:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-war-nearly-26-million-going-hungry-due-to-rising-food-prices-access-challenges\/"},"modified":"2024-07-24T02:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T00:26:52","slug":"sudan-war-nearly-26-million-going-hungry-due-to-rising-food-prices-access-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-war-nearly-26-million-going-hungry-due-to-rising-food-prices-access-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan War &#8211; Nearly 26 Million Going Hungry Due to Rising Food Prices, Access Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nearly 26 million people in war-torn Sudan are not getting enough to eat, the UN reported on Tuesday, citing its humanitarian affairs office, OCHA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;To give you an example, <strong>that is equivalent to the entire population of Australia<\/strong>,&#8221; UN Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric told journalists attending his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/ossg\/noon-briefing-highlight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">daily briefing<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">He said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OCHA<\/a> &#8220;continues to be extremely alarmed by the worsening food situation in the country&#8221; and the 26 million figure includes 750,000 people who are &#8220;just one step away&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407230558.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>Nearly 26 million people in war-torn Sudan are not getting enough to eat, the UN reported on Tuesday, citing its humanitarian affairs office, OCHA. &#8220;To give you an example, that is equivalent to the entire population of Australia,&#8221; UN Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric told journalists attending his daily briefing in New York. He said OCHA &#8220;continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":177168,"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":[6450,258,256,6977,6605,5074,12422,5118,257,10246,6678,254,4708,1613,6618],"class_list":["post-177167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-challenges","tag-due","tag-food","tag-hungry","tag-million","tag-news","tag-prices","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war"],"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\/177167","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=177167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}