{"id":178327,"date":"2024-08-11T15:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T13:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-ocha-appeals-to-security-council-for-urgent-action-to-fight-famine\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T15:10:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T13:10:33","slug":"sudan-ocha-appeals-to-security-council-for-urgent-action-to-fight-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-ocha-appeals-to-security-council-for-urgent-action-to-fight-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: OCHA Appeals to Security Council for Urgent Action to Fight Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\"><em>Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria by Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy for OCHA, on behalf of Joyce Msuya, acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\">Thank you, Mr. President.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The humanitarian situation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan<\/a> remains an absolute catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A staggering 26 million people are in acute hunger. That&#8217;s the equivalent of New York City times three &#8211; full of starving families and malnourished children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408070013.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>Briefing to the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in Syria by Edem Wosornu, Director, Operations and Advocacy for OCHA, on behalf of Joyce Msuya, acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Thank you, Mr. President. The humanitarian situation in Sudan remains an absolute catastrophe. A staggering 26 million people are in acute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178328,"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":[6394,258,256,4344,6158,2884,4345,257,6061,4586,254,4708,1613,11318],"class_list":["post-178327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeals","tag-council","tag-famine","tag-fight","tag-news","tag-ocha","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urgent"],"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\/178327","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=178327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}