{"id":59436,"date":"2020-01-23T10:04:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59436"},"modified":"2020-01-23T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:04:03","slug":"sudans-starving-lions-getting-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59436","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s starving lions getting help"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Sudan-s-starving-lions-getting-help-845386?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/494\/49442445.295.jpg\" alt=\"Lions\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>KHARTOUM, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The starving lions at the Dinder park in Sudan, whose photos caused an online outcry earlier this week, are now getting treatment.<br><br>A plea from the Sudan Wildlife Research Centre (SWRC), and an online campaign, have resulted in help arriving for the malnourished lions. One of the lions died earlier this week.<br><br>Conservationists from SWRC say the lions belong to a rare subspecies that are only found in areas near Sudan and Ethiopia.<br><br>It is unclear how many lions are in Sudan but several are at the Dinder park near the border with Ethiopia<br><br>Sudan is in the middle of an economic crisis which has led to soaring food prices and a shortage of foreign currency. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHARTOUM, Jan 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The starving lions at the Dinder park in Sudan, whose photos caused an online outcry earlier this week, are now getting treatment. A plea from the Sudan Wildlife Research Centre (SWRC), and an online campaign, have resulted in help arriving for the malnourished lions. One of the lions died earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59436"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}