{"id":178124,"date":"2024-08-08T09:12:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-faces-worsening-food-crisis-due-to-el-nino-droughts\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T09:12:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:12:18","slug":"zimbabwe-faces-worsening-food-crisis-due-to-el-nino-droughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-faces-worsening-food-crisis-due-to-el-nino-droughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Faces Worsening Food Crisis Due to El Ni\u00f1o Droughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">A new report from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) reveals that food insecurity levels in Zimbabwe are rapidly deteriorating after it was hit with historic droughts due to the El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">This comes just two months after UN humanitarians declared Zimbabwe as one of the hunger hotspots where <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2024\/06\/1150646\" rel=\"noopener\">acute food insecurity was likely to deteriorate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><strong>The storm destroyed more than half of the country&#8217;s harvest<\/strong>, leaving about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/news\/todays-top-news-occupied-palestinian-territory-zimbabwe\" rel=\"noopener\">7.6 million people at risk<\/a> of acute hunger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">El Ni\u00f1o is a regular&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408080092.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from the UN aid coordination office (OCHA) reveals that food insecurity levels in Zimbabwe are rapidly deteriorating after it was hit with historic droughts due to the El Ni\u00f1o weather pattern. This comes just two months after UN humanitarians declared Zimbabwe as one of the hunger hotspots where acute food insecurity was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,3723,18023,6605,5080,5074,257,25815,254,9273,4686,421],"class_list":["post-178124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-droughts","tag-due","tag-faces","tag-food","tag-news","tag-nino","tag-south-africa-today","tag-worsening","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178124","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}