{"id":247027,"date":"2026-10-13T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-drought-and-war-push-darfur-and-kordofan-towards-famine\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:00:17","slug":"sudan-drought-and-war-push-darfur-and-kordofan-towards-famine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-drought-and-war-push-darfur-and-kordofan-towards-famine\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Drought and War Push Darfur and Kordofan Towards Famine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The risk of famine is growing in parts of Sudan already torn apart by war, as a severe El Ni\u00f1o drought makes life even harder in Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan, the UN-backed global hunger monitor warned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a new alert, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said fresh evidence shows <strong>malnutrition getting worse in several hotspots<\/strong>. Aid is not keeping up, held back by <strong>a severe lack of funding, insecurity and restricted access<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The IPC food insecurity alert index is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610130016.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>The risk of famine is growing in parts of Sudan already torn apart by war, as a severe El Ni\u00f1o drought makes life even harder in Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan, the UN-backed global hunger monitor warned on Monday. In a new alert, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said fresh evidence shows malnutrition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":247028,"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":[784],"tags":[258,256,2269,4787,2884,7404,257,6354,254,4708,1613,6618],"class_list":["post-247027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-drought","tag-famine","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war"],"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\/247027","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=247027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}