{"id":3016,"date":"2019-06-10T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T07:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3016"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:20","slug":"vicious-circle-why-africa-is-trapped-in-sea-of-human-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/10\/vicious-circle-why-africa-is-trapped-in-sea-of-human-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"Vicious circle: Why Africa is trapped in sea of human crises"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By PETER MUNAITA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A humanitarian crisis is sweeping\nacross Africa as wars, popular uprisings, separatist movements, drought, natural\ndisasters and diseases displace people, raising serious questions on the\npriorities of economic managers and political leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apart from the well-publicized\nwar or instability in countries like Somalia, South Sudan, regions of\nDemocratic Republic of Congo, Central Africa Republic, Sudan, Libya and\nAlgeria, more than half of African countries are in some form of turbulence,\naccording to the United Nations Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian\nAffairs (Ocha).<br>\nThe crises manifest themselves in big refugee populations, both internal and\nexternal, hunger and malnutrition, unemployment and civil strife as people\ncompete for increasingly fewer resources \u2014 means of sustenance like water and\nland, social amenities like schools and basic commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An assessment of humanitarian\nneeds for this year by the UN shows that $25 billion will be required to assist\n94 million people who are in need, including those in Syria\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Why-Africa-is-trapped-in-sea-of-human-crises\/4552908-5149772-55vtqt\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By PETER MUNAITA A humanitarian crisis is sweeping across Africa as wars, popular uprisings, separatist movements, drought, natural disasters and diseases displace people, raising serious questions on the priorities of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}