{"id":201634,"date":"2025-07-04T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-among-nations-with-highest-frequency-of-acute-malnutrition-un\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T14:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T12:42:55","slug":"sudan-among-nations-with-highest-frequency-of-acute-malnutrition-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-among-nations-with-highest-frequency-of-acute-malnutrition-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Among Nations with Highest Frequency of Acute Malnutrition &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Geneva \u2014 Sudan is now among countries worldwide with the highest prevalence of global acute malnutrition, a trend also evident among new arrivals in neighbouring countries, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;Notably, our teams observe that newly arrived children in places like Chad and Uganda arrive with above acceptable levels of malnutrition,&#8221; UNHCR spokesperson Babar Baloch said at a UN press conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He noted that, for instance, recent assessments in Chad reveal extremely&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507040475.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>Geneva \u2014 Sudan is now among countries worldwide with the highest prevalence of global acute malnutrition, a trend also evident among new arrivals in neighbouring countries, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said Tuesday. &#8220;Notably, our teams observe that newly arrived children in places like Chad and Uganda arrive with above acceptable levels of malnutrition,&#8221; UNHCR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[14229,258,256,8700,12028,8425,2251,4301,257,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-201634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-acute","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-among","tag-frequency","tag-highest","tag-malnutrition","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/201634","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=201634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}