{"id":240238,"date":"2026-08-03T07:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-darfur-faces-famine-threat-as-drought-and-soaring-food-prices-deepen-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T07:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T05:52:55","slug":"sudan-darfur-faces-famine-threat-as-drought-and-soaring-food-prices-deepen-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-darfur-faces-famine-threat-as-drought-and-soaring-food-prices-deepen-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Darfur Faces Famine Threat As Drought and Soaring Food Prices Deepen Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Nierteti \/ El Obeid \u2014 <em>The General Coordination for Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur has warned of an imminent famine as a severe lack of rainfall, soaring food prices and disrupted trade leave communities struggling to secure basic supplies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Adam Rijal, a spokesperson for the coordination, told Radio Dabanga that poor rainfall during the current agricultural season, combined with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-inflation-surges-to-45-84-as-currency-weakens-further\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rising commodity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-inflation-surges-to-45-84-as-currency-weakens-further\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">prices<\/a>, could trigger famine unless humanitarian organisations intervene urgently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Markets&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608030134.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Nierteti \/ El Obeid \u2014 The General Coordination for Displaced Persons and Refugees in Darfur has warned of an imminent famine as a severe lack of rainfall, soaring food prices and disrupted trade leave communities struggling to secure basic supplies. Adam Rijal, a spokesperson for the coordination, told Radio Dabanga that poor rainfall during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,3723,2269,7683,4787,5080,2884,5074,257,10246,11458,254,4708,1613,6791],"class_list":["post-240238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-darfur","tag-deepen","tag-drought","tag-faces","tag-famine","tag-food","tag-news","tag-prices","tag-soaring","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240238","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=240238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240238\/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=240238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}