{"id":224779,"date":"2026-02-23T12:31:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-silent-crisis-women-and-children-bear-the-brunt-of-persistent-hunger\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:31:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T10:31:28","slug":"liberias-silent-crisis-women-and-children-bear-the-brunt-of-persistent-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-silent-crisis-women-and-children-bear-the-brunt-of-persistent-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia&#8217;s Silent Crisis &#8211; Women and Children Bear the Brunt of Persistent Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><em>Summary <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Women and children are at the center of Liberia&#8217;s growing hunger crisis<\/strong>, according to experts, driven not by war or famine but by deep poverty, absent fathers, teenage pregnancies and fragile livelihoods, with many surviving on one meal a day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Malnutrition remains widespread despite signs of improvement<\/strong>, with Liberia ranked 112th of 123 countries on the 2025 Global Hunger Index; health workers report rising cases of severely malnourished children, even as government officials say newer&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602200394.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary Women and children are at the center of Liberia&#8217;s growing hunger crisis, according to experts, driven not by war or famine but by deep poverty, absent fathers, teenage pregnancies and fragile livelihoods, with many surviving on one meal a day. Malnutrition remains widespread despite signs of improvement, with Liberia ranked 112th of 123 countries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224780,"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":[1086],"tags":[258,256,9045,9602,7371,3723,6223,1107,8536,257,16601,7616,254,6524],"class_list":["post-224779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bear","tag-brunt","tag-children","tag-crisis","tag-hunger","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-persistent","tag-silent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-women"],"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\/224779","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}