{"id":186436,"date":"2024-12-12T13:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-women-deliver-babies-on-the-road-and-under-fire-as-catastrophe-grips-sudans-aj-jazirah-state\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T13:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T11:29:38","slug":"sudan-women-deliver-babies-on-the-road-and-under-fire-as-catastrophe-grips-sudans-aj-jazirah-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-women-deliver-babies-on-the-road-and-under-fire-as-catastrophe-grips-sudans-aj-jazirah-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Women Deliver Babies On the Road and Under Fire As Catastrophe Grips Sudan&#8217;s Aj Jazirah State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Aj Jazirah State, Sudan \u2014 This was Amina&#8217;s fifth delivery by Caesarean section, but the first performed on the floor of a stranger&#8217;s home. &#8220;I had to start walking again just six hours later, carrying my baby while my wounds were still fresh and painful,&#8221; she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">At nine months pregnant, the 27-year-old mother of five had fled her home in Aj Jazirah State as <a href=\"https:\/\/dtm.iom.int\/reports\/dtm-sudan-focused-flash-alert-aj-jazirah-update-003?close=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">violence erupted<\/a> around her. She made it on foot to a neighbouring&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412120135.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>Aj Jazirah State, Sudan \u2014 This was Amina&#8217;s fifth delivery by Caesarean section, but the first performed on the floor of a stranger&#8217;s home. &#8220;I had to start walking again just six hours later, carrying my baby while my wounds were still fresh and painful,&#8221; she told UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":186437,"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":[258,256,16523,27466,6126,6600,9069,47418,257,7414,254,6017,4708,1613,8105,6524],"class_list":["post-186436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-babies","tag-catastrophe","tag-deliver","tag-fire","tag-grips","tag-jazirah","tag-news","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-women"],"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\/186436","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=186436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}