{"id":193530,"date":"2025-03-14T07:12:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-children-facing-unimaginable-suffering-warns-unicef-chief\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T07:12:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T05:12:58","slug":"sudan-children-facing-unimaginable-suffering-warns-unicef-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-children-facing-unimaginable-suffering-warns-unicef-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Children Facing &#8216;Unimaginable Suffering&#8217;, Warns Unicef Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Sudan is now the world&#8217;s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday. After two years of war, over 30 million people &#8211; more than half of them children &#8211; are living in the grip of mass atrocities, famine and deadly disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;<strong>This is not just a crisis, it is a poly-crisis affecting every sector, from health and nutrition to water, education and protection<\/strong>,&#8221; Catherine Russell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UNICEF<\/a> Executive Director, told ambassadors in the <a...<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140013.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>Sudan is now the world&#8217;s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis, the head of the UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) warned on Thursday. After two years of war, over 30 million people &#8211; more than half of them children &#8211; are living in the grip of mass atrocities, famine and deadly disease. &#8220;This is not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":193531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6510,7371,10458,257,254,4708,1613,6566,445,25986,6853],"class_list":["post-193530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-children","tag-facing","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-suffering","tag-unicef","tag-unimaginable","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/193530","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=193530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}