{"id":250374,"date":"2026-11-14T20:30:16","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-aid-is-the-only-hope-for-millions-in-sudan-wfp-chief-warns-as-funding-cuts-deepen-hunger-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T20:30:16","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:30:16","slug":"sudan-aid-is-the-only-hope-for-millions-in-sudan-wfp-chief-warns-as-funding-cuts-deepen-hunger-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-aid-is-the-only-hope-for-millions-in-sudan-wfp-chief-warns-as-funding-cuts-deepen-hunger-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Aid Is the &#8216;Only Hope&#8217; for Millions in Sudan, WFP Chief Warns, As Funding Cuts Deepen Hunger Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The World Food Programme&#8217;s (WFP) new Executive Director has warned that funding cuts are worsening Sudan&#8217;s hunger crisis following his first field mission to the country, where he met families displaced by conflict and struggling to feed their children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Sudan is facing one of the world&#8217;s largest humanitarian crises. Since civil war erupted in 2023, millions have been displaced, hundreds of thousands have been killed and famine has become widespread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;<strong>People facing acute hunger have three&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130013.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 World Food Programme&#8217;s (WFP) new Executive Director has warned that funding cuts are worsening Sudan&#8217;s hunger crisis following his first field mission to the country, where he met families displaced by conflict and struggling to feed their children. Sudan is facing one of the world&#8217;s largest humanitarian crises. Since civil war erupted in 2023, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":250375,"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\/00690919:ef414095e547ab2da8a4a59a03b2d641:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7828,6510,3723,7210,7683,6141,8868,6223,7033,257,254,4708,1613,6853,1639],"class_list":["post-250374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-chief","tag-crisis","tag-cuts","tag-deepen","tag-funding","tag-hope","tag-hunger","tag-millions","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-warns","tag-wfp"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690919:ef414095e547ab2da8a4a59a03b2d641:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250374","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=250374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}