{"id":58671,"date":"2017-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/02\/23\/pope-asks-to-remember-south-sudan-the-second-great-famine-of-the-21st-century-2\/"},"modified":"2017-02-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T23:00:00","slug":"pope-asks-to-remember-south-sudan-the-second-great-famine-of-the-21st-century-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/02\/23\/pope-asks-to-remember-south-sudan-the-second-great-famine-of-the-21st-century-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope asks to remember South Sudan: the second great famine of the 21st century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>POPE FRANCIS<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='font-style: italic;'>'The painful news coming from battered South Sudan provokes a serious concern.\u00e2?\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>Pope Francis has endorsed the appeal of international humanitarian agencies who on Monday announced this alarm:<span style='font-weight: bold;'> the youngest country<\/span> in the world is literally starving. It is a hunger provoked by war, violence and instability.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>Since its<span style='font-weight: bold;'> independence in 2011<\/span> and an initial apparent economic boom, the resulting crisis, corruption and violence have led this country to collapse.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>The UN estimates that 100,000 people are at high risk of death and <span style='font-weight: bold;'>UNICEF warns that the most vulnerable are children<\/span>. In addition, it is estimated that the number of affected could increase to five million by the month of July, when it's estimated there will be no more crops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'>The famine reported by Pope Francis is the second one after which the<span style='font-weight: bold;'> Horn of Africa<\/span> ravaged the lives of a million people in 2011. It had been described as the worst famine of the last 60 years.<\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>JRB\/MB<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>UNICEF \/ CTV<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>SV<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>-PR<\/span><\/p>\n<p class='paragraph'><span style='color: rgb(255, 255, 255);'>Up:JRB<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 22, 2017. On Monday, humanitarian agencies issued an alarm: 100,000 people are at high risk of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":58672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/SptiKGTqQGc","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bsudsudanint.mov","type":"rrp","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}