{"id":59976,"date":"2020-01-28T10:18:21","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59976"},"modified":"2020-01-28T10:18:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T02:18:23","slug":"international-help-for-starving-lions-in-sudan-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=59976","title":{"rendered":"International help for starving lions in Sudan zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/International-help-for-starving-lions-in-Sudan-zoo-849667?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/706\/70668502.295.jpg\" alt=\"There has been widespread concern about the plight of the lions\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>There has been widespread concern about the plight of the lions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KHARTOUM, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A team of wildlife conservationists has flown to Sudan to look after four starving lions in a zoo in the capital Khartoum.<br><br>The animals went hungry during the months of political and economic turmoil last year.<br><br>They lost as much as two-thirds of their body weight.<br><br>A lioness at the zoo died from dehydration last week, despite receiving intravenous fluids.<br><br>The conservationists say their first priority is to provide food and medical care for the lions. They will then look for a long-term solution. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been widespread concern about the plight of the lions KHARTOUM, Jan 28 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A team of wildlife conservationists has flown to Sudan to look after four starving lions in a zoo in the capital Khartoum. The animals went hungry during the months of political and economic turmoil last year. They lost as [&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\/59976"}],"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=59976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}