{"id":187605,"date":"2024-12-31T02:09:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-we-can-only-die-once-so-whats-there-to-fear-in-war-stricken-sudan-truck-drivers-persevere-to-tackle-famine\/"},"modified":"2024-12-31T02:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T00:09:48","slug":"sudan-we-can-only-die-once-so-whats-there-to-fear-in-war-stricken-sudan-truck-drivers-persevere-to-tackle-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-we-can-only-die-once-so-whats-there-to-fear-in-war-stricken-sudan-truck-drivers-persevere-to-tackle-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;We Can Only Die Once, So What&#8217;s There to Fear?&#8217; in War-Stricken Sudan, Truck Drivers Persevere to Tackle Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">In November, World Food Programme trucks finally arrived at the famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur and other hard-to-reach locations &#8211; this is how<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Little Ahmed hasn&#8217;t eaten a proper meal in days. He&#8217;s lucky when he gets anything to eat at all. Like many here at Zamzam camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) &#8211; one of several areas in Sudan where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/search?q=WFP+NortH+Darfur+Famine&amp;cvid=f1d70773bfb741819e18bc5617a600d7&amp;gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgYIABBFGDkyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQABhAMgYIAhAAGEAyBggDEAAYQDIGCAQQABhAMgYIBRAAGEAyBggGEAAYQDIGCAcQABhAMgYICBAAGEDSAQg2ODY0ajBqNKgCCLACAQ&amp;FORM=ANAB01&amp;PC=U531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">famine was confirmed in 2024<\/a> &#8211; he survives on leftover paste from the production of peanut oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Ahmed and his three siblings are orphans,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412300277.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>In November, World Food Programme trucks finally arrived at the famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur and other hard-to-reach locations &#8211; this is how Little Ahmed hasn&#8217;t eaten a proper meal in days. He&#8217;s lucky when he gets anything to eat at all. Like many here at Zamzam camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660907:8fb836a4bc0f40fa1344551ebcdc0cee:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,9028,11628,2884,12166,257,38241,254,4708,1613,11164,7744,50303,13199],"class_list":["post-187605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-die","tag-drivers","tag-famine","tag-fear","tag-news","tag-persevere","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-tackle","tag-truck","tag-warstricken","tag-whats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn02.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660907:8fb836a4bc0f40fa1344551ebcdc0cee:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187605","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=187605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}