{"id":25457,"date":"2024-06-19T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T08:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=25457"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T08:14:37","slug":"washington-we-need-the-world-to-wake-up-to-the-sudan-catastrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/19\/washington-we-need-the-world-to-wake-up-to-the-sudan-catastrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington: We need the World to wake up to the &#8220;Sudan Catastrophe&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-ups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US officials have warned that Sudan is facing a famine that could become worse than any famine the world witnessed in Ethiopia 40 years ago, as the war that has been going on for more than a year continues with the flow of weapons and preventing the delivery of aid.<br \/>\nUS Ambassador to the United Nations UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters: &#8220;We need the world to wake up to the catastrophe that is happening before our eyes in Sudan.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe added: &#8220;In the worst-case scenario, the famine in Sudan could become more deadly than the famine in Ethiopia in the early 1980s.&#8221;<br \/>\nGreenfield continued: &#8220;We have seen death projections that estimate that more than 2.5 million people, or about 15% of the population in Darfur and Kordofan &#8211; the areas most affected &#8211; could die by the end of September,&#8221; adding: &#8220;This is the largest humanitarian crisis on the planet.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Follow-ups US officials have warned that Sudan is facing a famine that could become worse than any famine the world witnessed in Ethiopia 40 years ago, as the war that has been going on for more than a year continues with the flow of weapons and preventing the delivery of aid. US &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457","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=25457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25467,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25457\/revisions\/25467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}