{"id":295036,"date":"2024-05-09T18:19:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T12:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=295036"},"modified":"2024-06-16T16:18:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T10:48:36","slug":"darfur-region-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/darfur-region-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Darfur Region (Sudan)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source-<\/strong> This post on <strong>Darfur Region (Sudan)\u00a0<\/strong>is based on the article &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/03\/africa\/people-eating-grass-sudan-hunger\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">People eating \u2018grass and peanut shells\u2019 in Darfur<\/a>&#8221; published in CNN on &#8220;3rd May 2024&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Why in News<\/h2>\n<p>UN has warned of starvation related deaths in the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Darfur Region of Sudan<\/span> as people are being forced to eat &#8216;grass and peanut shells&#8217; due to food scarcity amidst the ongoing civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Recently,violent clashes erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, resulting in the displacement of more than 8.6 million people, including internally displaced people (IDPs), asylum seekers and refugees.<\/p>\n<h2>About the Darfur Region<\/h2>\n<p>It is a region in <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">western Sudan<\/span>. The has been an ongoing <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">civil war between the Arab and African communities<\/span>. This has led to widespread violence and human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_295038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-295038\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-295038\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Darfur.png?resize=300%2C273&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Darfur\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Darfur.png?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Darfur.png?resize=768%2C698&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Darfur.png?w=880&amp;ssl=1 880w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-295038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source- Copyright infringement not intended<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>About Sudan<\/h2>\n<table style=\"height: 90px;width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;border-style: solid\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9394%;height: 30px\"><strong>Location<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0606%;height: 30px\">Sudan is located in <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Northeast Africa<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9394%;height: 30px\"><strong>Borders of Sudan<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0606%;height: 30px\">It borders the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Central African Republic<\/span> to the southwest, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Chad<\/span> to the west, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Egypt<\/span> to the north, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Eritrea<\/span> to the northeast, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Ethiopia<\/span> to the southeast, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Libya<\/span> to the northwest, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">South Sudan<\/span> to the south, and the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Red Sea<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px\">\n<td style=\"width: 23.9394%;height: 30px\"><strong>Geographical Area<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 76.0606%;height: 30px\">It was the largest country by area in Africa and the Arab League until the secession of South Sudan in 2011.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus-<\/strong> Geography (Places in News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source- This post on Darfur Region (Sudan)\u00a0is based on the article &#8220;People eating \u2018grass and peanut shells\u2019 in Darfur&#8221; published in CNN on &#8220;3rd May 2024&#8221; Why in News UN has warned of starvation related deaths in the Darfur Region of Sudan as people are being forced to eat &#8216;grass and peanut shells&#8217; due to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/darfur-region-sudan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Darfur Region (Sudan)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10357,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11209],"tags":[11872,11292],"class_list":["post-295036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-geography-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-cnn","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}