{"id":204444,"date":"2025-08-11T16:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-local-solutions-traditional-foods-to-stave-starvation\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T14:01:14","slug":"sudan-local-solutions-traditional-foods-to-stave-starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-local-solutions-traditional-foods-to-stave-starvation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Local Solutions &#8211; Traditional Foods to Stave Starvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"107\">The phrase &#8220;necessity is the mother of invention&#8221; could not be more aptly applied to what is currently taking place in Sudan. Over half of Sudan&#8217;s population&#8211;25 million people&#8211;is experiencing acute hunger. Malnutrition, especially among children in Sudan&#8217;s conflict areas, is desperately high. Over 40,000 children were admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition in North Darfur State within the first five months of 2025, the UN reported, double the number for the same period last year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508110093.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>The phrase &#8220;necessity is the mother of invention&#8221; could not be more aptly applied to what is currently taking place in Sudan. Over half of Sudan&#8217;s population&#8211;25 million people&#8211;is experiencing acute hunger. Malnutrition, especially among children in Sudan&#8217;s conflict areas, is desperately high. Over 40,000 children were admitted for treatment for severe acute malnutrition in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671042:7d2ed5e7d09ed704c0ffdc1a1df0bf4f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,15443,7823,257,16100,254,6224,26440,4708,1613,9464],"class_list":["post-204444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-foods","tag-local","tag-news","tag-solutions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starvation","tag-stave","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-traditional"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671042:7d2ed5e7d09ed704c0ffdc1a1df0bf4f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204444","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=204444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}