{"id":183092,"date":"2024-10-23T00:38:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/southern-africa-world-news-in-brief-historic-drought-in-southern-africa-human-rights-in-tunisia-accountability-essential-for-pakistan-mineworker-killings\/"},"modified":"2024-10-23T00:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-22T22:38:52","slug":"southern-africa-world-news-in-brief-historic-drought-in-southern-africa-human-rights-in-tunisia-accountability-essential-for-pakistan-mineworker-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/southern-africa-world-news-in-brief-historic-drought-in-southern-africa-human-rights-in-tunisia-accountability-essential-for-pakistan-mineworker-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Africa: World News in Brief &#8211; &#8216;Historic Drought&#8217; in Southern Africa, Human Rights in Tunisia, Accountability Essential for Pakistan Mineworker Killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nearly six and a half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an &#8220;historic drought&#8221; linked to last year&#8217;s El Ni\u00f1o, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">In an appeal for help, the World Food Programme, <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.wfp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WFP<\/a>, said that more than 27 million people&#8217;s lives from Lesotho to Zimbabwe have been devastated, leaving 21 million children malnourished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">A record five countries have declared a national disaster because of the drought and requested international assistance: Lesotho, Malawi,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410220114.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly six and a half million people in southern Africa are starving because of an &#8220;historic drought&#8221; linked to last year&#8217;s El Ni\u00f1o, UN humanitarians said on Tuesday. In an appeal for help, the World Food Programme, WFP, said that more than 27 million people&#8217;s lives from Lesotho to Zimbabwe have been devastated, leaving 21 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183093,"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":[642],"tags":[13948,258,256,4787,6451,13203,3575,6612,49812,257,5174,5100,254,7153,4703,653,5093],"class_list":["post-183092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drought","tag-essential","tag-historic","tag-human","tag-killings","tag-mineworker","tag-news","tag-pakistan","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-southern","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-world"],"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\/183092","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=183092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}