{"id":174496,"date":"2024-06-14T13:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-suliman-baldo-el-fasher-a-siege-comparable-to-gaza\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:00:49","slug":"sudan-suliman-baldo-el-fasher-a-siege-comparable-to-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-suliman-baldo-el-fasher-a-siege-comparable-to-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Suliman Baldo &#8211; El-Fasher, a Siege &#8216;Comparable to Gaza&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"77\"><em>Surrounded, starving, under artillery fire and awaiting an imminent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), El-Fasher, the capital of Darfur, is &#8220;hell on earth&#8221;. On Tuesday 11 June, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a broad appeal for testimony in relation to allegations of crimes committed in Sudan, particularly in El-Fasher. Suliman Baldo, executive director of the Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker and expert on conflict resolution in the region, analyses&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406140287.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surrounded, starving, under artillery fire and awaiting an imminent offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), El-Fasher, the capital of Darfur, is &#8220;hell on earth&#8221;. On Tuesday 11 June, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) launched a broad appeal for testimony in relation to allegations of crimes committed in Sudan, particularly in El-Fasher. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":174497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,48774,48776,48775,2671,257,4940,254,4708,1613,48773],"class_list":["post-174496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baldo","tag-comparable","tag-elfasher","tag-gaza","tag-news","tag-siege","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-suliman"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}