{"id":3591,"date":"2014-07-04T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T05:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2014-07-04T12:01:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T05:01:55","slug":"ethiopia-facing-flood-of-refugees-from-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/ethiopia-facing-flood-of-refugees-from-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia facing flood of refugees from South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is facing a huge wave of refugees from South Sudan, where the spectre of famine threatens to heap further misery on a people already rocked by civil war, the UN&#8217;s food aid agency warned on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The numbers are increasing exponentially in a very short period of time,&#8221; said Abdou Dieng, head of the World Food Programme&#8217;s Ethiopia operations.<\/p>\n<p>There are already around 147 000 South Sudanese refugees in camps in neighbouring Ethiopia, and at least 1 500 more are crossing the border every week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation is not improving in South Sudan, so we expect that they will continue to come. If there is a famine in South Sudan, as many people think there will be, that will push more people to come into Ethiopia,&#8221; he told reporters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ethiopia News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Ethiopia-facing-flood-of-South-Sudan-refugees-20140702-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Ethiopia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/ethiopia\/\">Ethiopia<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia is facing a huge wave of refugees from South Sudan, where the spectre of famine threatens to heap further misery on a people already rocked by civil war, the UN&#8217;s food aid agency warned on Wednesday. &#8220;The numbers are increasing exponentially in a very short period of time,&#8221; said Abdou Dieng, head of the [&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":[1298,550],"tags":[258,256,4695,4716,1299,257,2126,254,4700,733,2127,310],"class_list":["post-3591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ethiopia","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopia-news","tag-news","tag-refugees-from-south-sudan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-south-sudanese-refugees","tag-un"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591","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=3591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3591\/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=3591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}