{"id":21424,"date":"2018-05-10T19:15:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/un-humanitarian-chief-mark-lowcock-to-brief-the-press-on-his-visit-to-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T19:15:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T17:15:06","slug":"un-humanitarian-chief-mark-lowcock-to-brief-the-press-on-his-visit-to-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/un-humanitarian-chief-mark-lowcock-to-brief-the-press-on-his-visit-to-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Humanitarian Chief Mark Lowcock to brief the press on his visit to South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>WHO: Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator<br \/> WHAT: Press Briefing on his visit to South Sudan<br \/> WHEN: Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 1 p.m. (Juba time)<br \/> WHERE: Wau Conference Hall, UNMISS Base Tongping, Juba<br \/> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock will visit South Sudan from 15 to 16 May to see first-hand the appalling humanitarian situation and call for urgent action to alleviate suffering.<\/p>\n<p> Tens of thousands of civilians continue to be displaced following recent fighting in Unity and Jonglei and there is escalating food insecurity and malnutrition across the country.<\/p>\n<p> During the two-day mission, Mr. Lowcock is expected to meet with people affected by the humanitarian crisis, senior Government officials and humanitarian partners in Juba and Yei, Central Equatoria.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).<\/i><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/un-humanitarian-chief-mark-lowcock-to-brief-the-press-on-his-visit-to-south-sudan?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Central Africa <a title=\"Democratic Republic of Congo\" href=\"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/central-africa\/dr-congo\/\">Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHO: Mark Lowcock, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator WHAT: Press Briefing on his visit to South Sudan WHEN: Wednesday, 16 May 2018 at 1 p.m. (Juba time) WHERE: Wau Conference Hall, UNMISS Base Tongping, Juba &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Mark Lowcock will visit South Sudan from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[258,256,4696,281,4691,450,279,280,257,254],"class_list":["post-21424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dr-congo","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central-africa","tag-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-dr-congo","tag-dr-congo-news","tag-drc","tag-drc-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}