{"id":185820,"date":"2024-12-03T13:05:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-polycrisis-in-sudan-needs-the-worlds-attention-statement-by-tom-fletcher-under-secretary-general-for-humanitarian-affairs-and-emergency-relief-coordinator\/"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:05:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T11:05:57","slug":"sudan-polycrisis-in-sudan-needs-the-worlds-attention-statement-by-tom-fletcher-under-secretary-general-for-humanitarian-affairs-and-emergency-relief-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-polycrisis-in-sudan-needs-the-worlds-attention-statement-by-tom-fletcher-under-secretary-general-for-humanitarian-affairs-and-emergency-relief-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Polycrisis in Sudan Needs the World&#8217;s Attention &#8211; Statement By Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">I have spent the past week traveling across Sudan, talking to communities, leaders, humanitarian partners and our UN family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The message to the international community from those at the heart of this crisis is unequivocal: We are not invisible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Sudan is in the grips of an epic polycrisis. Nearly 20 months of war have turned it into the fastest-growing displacement crisis, with an average of a staggering 20,000 people forced to move every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Sudan has also become the worst hunger crisis in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412030041.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>I have spent the past week traveling across Sudan, talking to communities, leaders, humanitarian partners and our UN family. The message to the international community from those at the heart of this crisis is unequivocal: We are not invisible. Sudan is in the grips of an epic polycrisis. Nearly 20 months of war have turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":185821,"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":[6117,258,256,9664,6070,6990,50097,6068,257,50096,10864,254,6065,4708,1613,25772,23105,7787],"class_list":["post-185820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-affairs","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attention","tag-coordinator","tag-emergency","tag-fletcher","tag-humanitarian","tag-news","tag-polycrisis","tag-relief","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-tom","tag-undersecretarygeneral","tag-worlds"],"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\/185820","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=185820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}