{"id":179099,"date":"2024-08-23T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-hundreds-of-unaccompanied-children-among-thousands-fleeing-latest-surge-of-fighting\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:43:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T13:43:14","slug":"sudan-hundreds-of-unaccompanied-children-among-thousands-fleeing-latest-surge-of-fighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-hundreds-of-unaccompanied-children-among-thousands-fleeing-latest-surge-of-fighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Hundreds of Unaccompanied Children Among Thousands Fleeing Latest Surge of Fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Port Sudan \u2014 Escalation in violence in Sennar&#8217;s state capital Sinja on 29 June triggered widespread fighting which has displaced about 725,000 people, over half of whom are estimated to be children, according to data from International Organization for Migration&#8217;s Displacement Tracking Matrix (IOM DTM).[1]<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">Families are fleeing to Blue Nile and Gedaref states with rising numbers of children arriving without their parents, Save the Children said. Many of these families are being displaced for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408230034.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>Port Sudan \u2014 Escalation in violence in Sennar&#8217;s state capital Sinja on 29 June triggered widespread fighting which has displaced about 725,000 people, over half of whom are estimated to be children, according to data from International Organization for Migration&#8217;s Displacement Tracking Matrix (IOM DTM).[1] Families are fleeing to Blue Nile and Gedaref states with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":179100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650227:7e064f75228a7baee122bbf1e3504a87:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,8700,7371,4377,8491,6529,5037,257,254,4708,1613,10716,9216,30625],"class_list":["post-179099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-among","tag-children","tag-fighting","tag-fleeing","tag-hundreds","tag-latest","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-surge","tag-thousands","tag-unaccompanied"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650227:7e064f75228a7baee122bbf1e3504a87:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179099","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=179099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}