{"id":16780,"date":"2024-03-28T01:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=16780"},"modified":"2024-03-28T01:53:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T01:53:22","slug":"washington-a-ceasefire-is-important-to-prevent-famine-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/washington-a-ceasefire-is-important-to-prevent-famine-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington: A \u201cceasefire\u201d is Important to prevent Famine in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-ups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A senior US official said that a ceasefire is important in Sudan to prevent famine.<br \/>\nAssistant Secretary of State Julieta Valls Noez, head of the State Department&#8217;s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, affirmed in a digital press conference, following visits to Chad and Ethiopia, where she met with government officials and humanitarian workers.<br \/>\n\u201cPreventing famine and long-term catastrophe will require a ceasefire and unimpeded humanitarian access,\u201d she affirmed<br \/>\nValls Noyes said the U S recently pledged an additional $47 million for the humanitarian response in countries neighboring Sudan, including Chad and South Sudan.<br \/>\nThis brings total US aid to nearly $1 billion since the outbreak of the conflict a year ago.<br \/>\nDespite this, many humanitarian needs have not been met, both in Darfur and in neighboring countries such as Chad, where 560,000 Sudanese have taken refuge.<br \/>\n\u201cResources are scarce and humanitarian funding is very weak,\u201d UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements said earlier this month after visiting Chad.<br \/>\nShe added: \u201cChadian officials are concerned that more hungry Sudanese families will arrive in the coming weeks.\u201d \u201cArrivals have slowed in recent months, but this could change quickly.<br \/>\nEven without more arriving, the needs now far exceed the capacity of humanitarian agencies..Resources are scarce and humanitarian funding is extremely tight&#8230; The dire situation could soon become much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-ups A senior US official said that a ceasefire is important in Sudan to prevent famine. Assistant Secretary of State Julieta Valls Noez, head of the State Department&#8217;s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, affirmed in a digital press conference, following visits to Chad and Ethiopia, where she met with government officials &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16785,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16780\/revisions\/16785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}