{"id":3166,"date":"2014-06-25T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3166"},"modified":"2014-06-25T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T04:08:42","slug":"usaid-to-help-cameroons-rising-refugee-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/usaid-to-help-cameroons-rising-refugee-population\/","title":{"rendered":"USAID to Help Cameroon\u2019s Rising Refugee Population"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that it will pump in $5 million (FCFA 2.4 billion) of cash-based food assistance to the UN World Food Program (WFP) to address the immediate food needs of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) who have taken refuge in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement sent to the Journal, the US Embassy in Cameroon said through this contribution, USAID is addressing acute food needs arising from the recent influx of over 86,000 refugees in Cameroon through the provision of 14,100 tons of locally-purchased food&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cameroonjournal.com\/US%20Releases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced that it will pump in $5 million (FCFA 2.4 billion) of cash-based food assistance to the UN World Food Program (WFP) to address the immediate food needs of refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) who have taken refuge in Cameroon. In a statement sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,257,1219,1640,254,1638,1637,1194,4692,1639],"class_list":["post-3166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-news","tag-refugees","tag-refugees-from-the-central-african-republic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-un-world-food-program","tag-united-states-agency-for-international-development","tag-usaid","tag-west-africa","tag-wfp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3166\/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=3166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}