{"id":183586,"date":"2024-10-30T06:27:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-decisive-action-needed-to-halt-fighting-in-sudan-un\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T06:27:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:27:13","slug":"sudan-decisive-action-needed-to-halt-fighting-in-sudan-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-decisive-action-needed-to-halt-fighting-in-sudan-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Decisive Action&#8217; Needed to Halt Fighting in Sudan &#8211; UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">United Nations \u2014 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for &#8220;decisive action&#8221; on Monday to end the 18-month-long civil war in Sudan, where millions face starvation and have been displaced from their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">&#8220;We have consistently appealed to both sides to end the fighting and come to the negotiating table,&#8221; he told a meeting of the U.N. Security Council on Sudan. &#8220;But instead of lowering tensions, they are escalating military action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The warring parties are led by rival&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410290035.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>United Nations \u2014 United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for &#8220;decisive action&#8221; on Monday to end the 18-month-long civil war in Sudan, where millions face starvation and have been displaced from their homes. &#8220;We have consistently appealed to both sides to end the fighting and come to the negotiating table,&#8221; he told a meeting of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630813:e635e98976fa4ed91a237a17ec85cd29:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[6394,258,256,15571,4377,7520,6424,257,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-183586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-decisive","tag-fighting","tag-halt","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630813:e635e98976fa4ed91a237a17ec85cd29:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183586","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=183586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}