{"id":177944,"date":"2024-08-05T14:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T12:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-sudans-government-denies-famine-exists-in-darfurs-zamzam-camp\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T12:56:16","slug":"east-africa-sudans-government-denies-famine-exists-in-darfurs-zamzam-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/east-africa-sudans-government-denies-famine-exists-in-darfurs-zamzam-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"East Africa: Sudan&#8217;s Government Denies Famine Exists in Darfur&#8217;s Zamzam Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><em>CAIRO, Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Sudan on Sunday denied the existence of famine in North Darfur&#8217;s Zamzam camp for internally displaced people, while an aid group said there was a risk of a severe shortage of special food designed to treat malnourished children in the camp. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">On Thursday, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all%3AL8N3JO00P&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global food monitor<\/a> found that famine, confirmed when acute malnutrition and mortality criteria are met, was present in the Zamzam camp and likely to persist there at least until October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Experts and U.N. officials say a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408050372.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>CAIRO, Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Sudan on Sunday denied the existence of famine in North Darfur&#8217;s Zamzam camp for internally displaced people, while an aid group said there was a risk of a severe shortage of special food designed to treat malnourished children in the camp. On Thursday, a global food monitor found that famine, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":177945,"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":[258,256,6835,12955,7651,6719,28553,2884,6427,257,254,1613,8105,43289],"class_list":["post-177944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-camp","tag-darfurs","tag-denies","tag-east","tag-exists","tag-famine","tag-government","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-zamzam"],"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\/177944","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=177944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}