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The situation in Sudan, which was once called the world’s food basket, is similar to that of Tantalus in Greek mythology, who was cursed to eternal misery by being forced to stand in a basin of water beneath a low-branched fruit tree, the fruit eluding his grasp and the water draining before he could drink.<\/p>\n
Sudan is currently facing the worst period of acute food insecurity in its history, with more than 25.6 million people suffering from acute hunger.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to the Integrated Food Security…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The situation in Sudan, which was once called the world’s food basket, is similar to that of Tantalus in Greek mythology, who was cursed to eternal misery by being forced to stand in a basin of water beneath a low-branched fruit tree, the fruit eluding his grasp and the water draining before he could drink. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":177874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651378:c5166ec96c87371318c4d13fe3f8e758:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,27466,27418,2884,257,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-177873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-catastrophe","tag-deliberately","tag-famine","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651378:c5166ec96c87371318c4d13fe3f8e758:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177873","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=177873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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