{"id":178361,"date":"2024-08-12T03:12:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T01:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-world-needs-to-wakeup-to-famine-in-sudans-darfur-wfp\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T03:12:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T01:12:22","slug":"sudan-world-needs-to-wakeup-to-famine-in-sudans-darfur-wfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-world-needs-to-wakeup-to-famine-in-sudans-darfur-wfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: World Needs to &#8216;Wakeup&#8217; to Famine in Sudan&#8217;s Darfur &#8211; WFP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">United Nations \u2014 A senior U.N. humanitarian official said Tuesday that the confirmation of famine in parts of Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region must serve as a wakeup call for the international community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;There must now be a coordinated diplomatic effort to address the widespread operational challenges and impediments that aid agencies are facing, as we try to reach the millions of Sudanese people in abject need,&#8221; said Stephen Omollo, World Food Program&#8217;s assistant executive director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">WFP and other&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408070010.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>United Nations \u2014 A senior U.N. humanitarian official said Tuesday that the confirmation of famine in parts of Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region must serve as a wakeup call for the international community. &#8220;There must now be a coordinated diplomatic effort to address the widespread operational challenges and impediments that aid agencies are facing, as we try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178362,"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":[258,256,2269,2884,257,254,4708,1613,8105,27407,1639,5093],"class_list":["post-178361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-famine","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-wakeup","tag-wfp","tag-world"],"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\/178361","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=178361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}