{"id":190947,"date":"2025-02-09T05:58:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-top-aid-official-warns-against-escalating-violence-in-two-states\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T05:58:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:58:40","slug":"sudan-top-aid-official-warns-against-escalating-violence-in-two-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-top-aid-official-warns-against-escalating-violence-in-two-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Top Aid Official Warns Against Escalating Violence in Two States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan are on the brink of catastrophe as violence continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Thursday in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Clementine Nkweta-Salami <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unocha.org\/publications\/report\/sudan\/protect-civilians-trapped-crisis-south-kordofan-and-blue-nile-statement-united-nations-resident-and-humanitarian-coordinator-sudan-clementine-nkweta-salami\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> the latest outbreak of hostilities in South Kordofan&#8217;s capital, Kadugli, has reportedly claimed at least 80 civilian lives and left scores more injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><strong>She condemned the reported use of women and children as human shields there<\/strong>, along with the obstruction of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502070010.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>South Kordofan and Blue Nile states in Sudan are on the brink of catastrophe as violence continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in the country said on Thursday in a statement. Clementine Nkweta-Salami said the latest outbreak of hostilities in South Kordofan&#8217;s capital, Kadugli, has reportedly claimed at least 80 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":190948,"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":[258,256,7828,17987,257,5092,254,6484,4708,1613,7319,2148,6853],"class_list":["post-190947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-escalating","tag-news","tag-official","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-top","tag-violence","tag-warns"],"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\/190947","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=190947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}