{"id":180816,"date":"2024-09-18T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-us-president-biden-urges-end-to-sudan-conflict\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T14:52:08","slug":"sudan-us-president-biden-urges-end-to-sudan-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-us-president-biden-urges-end-to-sudan-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: US President Biden Urges End to Sudan Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Washington D.C. \u2014 <em>US President Joe Biden has condemned the ongoing conflict in Sudan, urging both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to halt their actions and allow humanitarian aid to reach civilians.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2024\/09\/17\/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a statement<\/a> released by the White House yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/washington-names-new-us-special-envoy-to-sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> highlighted the dire consequences of the 17-month war, which has displaced nearly 10 million people and seen widespread human rights abuses. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/stpt-report-offers-gender-informed-perspective-on-sudan-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women and girls<\/a> have been kidnapped and sexually&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409180566.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>Washington D.C. \u2014 US President Joe Biden has condemned the ongoing conflict in Sudan, urging both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to halt their actions and allow humanitarian aid to reach civilians. In a statement released by the White House yesterday, Biden highlighted the dire consequences of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":180817,"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":[258,256,36243,2444,257,2450,254,4708,1613,6810],"class_list":["post-180816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biden","tag-conflict","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urges"],"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\/180816","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=180816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}