{"id":181524,"date":"2024-09-29T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T15:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-african-union-urges-ceasefire-as-violence-escalates-in-north-darfur\/"},"modified":"2024-09-29T17:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T15:16:10","slug":"sudan-african-union-urges-ceasefire-as-violence-escalates-in-north-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-african-union-urges-ceasefire-as-violence-escalates-in-north-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: African Union Urges Ceasefire As Violence Escalates in North Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">El Fasher \/ Addis Ababa \/ Entebbe \/ New York \u2014 <em>The African Union condemned the surge in violence in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, amid rising insecurity across Sudan, in a press release issued yesterday. Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, expressed &#8220;grave concern at the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation,&#8221; particularly in El Fasher, calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\"><a href=\"https:\/\/au.int\/sites\/default\/files\/pressreleases\/44092-pr-AU_Commission_Chairperson_expresses_grave_concern_over_the_alarming_situation_in_El_Fasher_Darfur.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faki<\/a> strongly condemned &#8220;the current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/report-north-darfur-capital-being-reduced-to-rubble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">escalation of the&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409270105.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>El Fasher \/ Addis Ababa \/ Entebbe \/ New York \u2014 The African Union condemned the surge in violence in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, amid rising insecurity across Sudan, in a press release issued yesterday. Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, expressed &#8220;grave concern at the deteriorating security and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":181525,"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":[258,256,4380,1509,2269,8580,257,6732,254,4708,1613,6156,6810,2148],"class_list":["post-181524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-ceasefire","tag-darfur","tag-escalates","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-union","tag-urges","tag-violence"],"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\/181524","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=181524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}