{"id":678,"date":"2017-05-04T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=678"},"modified":"2017-05-04T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:30:46","slug":"risk-of-mass-starvation-in-four-african-countries-warns-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/05\/04\/risk-of-mass-starvation-in-four-african-countries-warns-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Risk of \u2018mass\u2019 starvation in four African countries, warns UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of mass starvation in four countries &#8211; northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen &#8211; is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are raising our alarm level today that the risk of mass deaths from starvation among populations in the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria is growing,\u201d UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards told a news briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are already seeing a rise of displacement.\u201d<br \/>\nAmid a funding shortfall and sharply deteriorating availability of food, a humanitarian crisis possibly worse than that of 2011 when 260,000 people died of famine in the Horn of Africa \u201cis fast becoming an inevitability\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(video that goes with this article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The risk of mass starvation in four countries &#8211; northeast Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen &#8211; is rapidly rising due to drought and conflict, the U.N. refugee agency said on Tuesday. \u201cWe are raising our alarm level today that the risk of mass deaths from starvation among populations in the Horn of Africa, Yemen and Nigeria is growing,\u201d UNHCR&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2017\/05\/04\/risk-of-mass-starvation-in-four-african-countries-warns-un\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":679,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}