{"id":219079,"date":"2026-01-03T23:09:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-gambella-in-turmoil-amid-hunger-influx-of-refugees-from-neighboring-sudan-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:09:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:09:06","slug":"ethiopia-gambella-in-turmoil-amid-hunger-influx-of-refugees-from-neighboring-sudan-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/ethiopia-gambella-in-turmoil-amid-hunger-influx-of-refugees-from-neighboring-sudan-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Gambella in Turmoil Amid Hunger, Influx of Refugees From Neighboring Sudan, South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">A humanitarian catastrophe is set to unfold in the southern region of Gambella as the federal government deploys troops to help subdue intense violence and unrest that residents and aid workers in the area say stems from rapidly deteriorating living conditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">With violence escalating and the death toll mounting, relief agencies have begun to suspend their operations as a result of the latest deadly conflict amid an influx of refugees fleeing violence in Sudan and South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The latest relief&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601030139.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>A humanitarian catastrophe is set to unfold in the southern region of Gambella as the federal government deploys troops to help subdue intense violence and unrest that residents and aid workers in the area say stems from rapidly deteriorating living conditions. With violence escalating and the death toll mounting, relief agencies have begun to suspend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219080,"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\/00680374:1ca7e99b81e239c16099f37a5c3f5352:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,4716,53315,6223,8835,8864,257,1219,5069,254,4708,1613,8513],"class_list":["post-219079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-gambella","tag-hunger","tag-influx","tag-neighboring","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-turmoil"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680374:1ca7e99b81e239c16099f37a5c3f5352:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219079","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=219079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}