{"id":7342,"date":"2012-01-24T21:08:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/u-s-fears-serious-famine-in-troubled-sudan-region\/"},"modified":"2012-01-24T21:08:04","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T19:08:04","slug":"u-s-fears-serious-famine-in-troubled-sudan-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/u-s-fears-serious-famine-in-troubled-sudan-region\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. fears serious famine in troubled Sudan region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. says world must take action as famine looms<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Aid groups say Khartoum&#8217;s stance limits options<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. fears Sudan oil dispute risks long-term damage<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Andrew Quinn<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States fears<br \/>\na large-scale famine in Sudan&#8217;s restive border states of<br \/>\nSouthern Kordofan and Blue Nile and is boosting pressure in<br \/>\nKhartoum to accept aid or face a unilateral assistance<br \/>\noperation, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are feeling a lot of pressure, if there&#8217;s no<br \/>\ninternational access, to look at ways in which assistance would<br \/>\nbe carried across the border without their approval,&#8221; Princeton<br \/>\nLyman, the Obama administration&#8217;s special envoy for Sudan, told<br \/>\nreporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lyman cited expert reports which said that the worsening<br \/>\ncrisis, which has already caused tens of thousands of people to<br \/>\nflee their homes, could expand to leave more than a quarter of a<br \/>\nmillion people on the brink of famine by March.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This could be a major, major calamity,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sudan said this week it would continue to allow only limited<br \/>\naccess to United Nations agencies and aid groups in the two<br \/>\nborder states, where government forces have battled rebels since<br \/>\nJune last year shortly before South Sudan declared independence<br \/>\nunder a 2005 peace deal..<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* U.S. says world must take action as famine looms * Aid groups say Khartoum&#8217;s stance limits options * U.S. fears Sudan oil dispute risks long-term damage By Andrew Quinn WASHINGTON, Jan 24 (Reuters) &#8211; The United States fears a large-scale famine in Sudan&#8217;s restive border states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}