{"id":178111,"date":"2024-08-08T03:02:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-humanitarians-urge-security-council-to-stop-freight-train-of-suffering-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T03:02:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:02:32","slug":"sudan-humanitarians-urge-security-council-to-stop-freight-train-of-suffering-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-humanitarians-urge-security-council-to-stop-freight-train-of-suffering-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Humanitarians Urge Security Council to Stop &#8216;Freight Train of Suffering&#8217; in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Two senior UN officials appealed to the Security Council on Tuesday for more resources and greater humanitarian access in Sudan, where people are literally dying of hunger as the war between rival militaries rages on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Edem Wosornu of the UN humanitarian affairs office, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OCHA<\/a>, and Stephen Omollo, Assistant Executive Director of the World Food Programme (<a href=\"http:\/\/www1.wfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WFP<\/a>), briefed ambassadors in the wake of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcinfo.org\/fileadmin\/user_upload\/ipcinfo\/docs\/IPC_Famine_Review_Committee_Report_Sudan_July2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent confirmation<\/a> of famine in the Zamzam displacement camp, home to 500,000 people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Zamzam is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408070321.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>Two senior UN officials appealed to the Security Council on Tuesday for more resources and greater humanitarian access in Sudan, where people are literally dying of hunger as the war between rival militaries rages on. Edem Wosornu of the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, and Stephen Omollo, Assistant Executive Director of the World Food Programme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178112,"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\/00651202:711a4d521cbc73a030a7a66ba86524de:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6158,16936,39934,257,4586,254,8652,4708,1613,6566,6026,10525],"class_list":["post-178111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-council","tag-freight","tag-humanitarians","tag-news","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stop","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-suffering","tag-train","tag-urge"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651202:711a4d521cbc73a030a7a66ba86524de:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178111","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=178111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}