{"id":183366,"date":"2024-10-26T18:19:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-african-union-should-take-bold-action-to-protect-sudanese-civilians\/"},"modified":"2024-10-26T18:19:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T16:19:19","slug":"sudan-un-african-union-should-take-bold-action-to-protect-sudanese-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-african-union-should-take-bold-action-to-protect-sudanese-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN, African Union Should Take Bold Action to Protect Sudanese Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Deployment of Mission to Protect Civilians Can&#8217;t Wait<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">United Nations and African Union member states should begin planning the deployment of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2024\/05\/09\/massalit-will-not-come-home\/ethnic-cleansing-and-crimes-against-humanity-el\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mission to protect civilians<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan<\/a>, where millions of people are displaced and face famine after a year and a half of brutal armed conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africaintelligence.com\/eastern-africa-and-the-horn\/2024\/10\/23\/un-chief-not-yet-ready-to-send-peacekeepers-to-sudan,110331141-art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new report<\/a> to the UN Security Council, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres outlines steps member states should take to protect Sudan&#8217;s civilians and press the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and their rivals,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410250016.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>Deployment of Mission to Protect Civilians Can&#8217;t Wait United Nations and African Union member states should begin planning the deployment of a mission to protect civilians in Sudan, where millions of people are displaced and face famine after a year and a half of brutal armed conflict. In a new report to the UN Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651253:84a9fb84a7a953f59fffc2f0282348a0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[6394,258,256,4380,7439,13304,257,6202,254,4708,1613,7296,6156],"class_list":["post-183366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-bold","tag-civilians","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn09.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651253:84a9fb84a7a953f59fffc2f0282348a0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183366","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=183366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}