{"id":193682,"date":"2025-03-16T07:17:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-children-being-brutalized-in-sudans-civil-war-say-unicef-and-msf\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T07:17:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:17:41","slug":"sudan-children-being-brutalized-in-sudans-civil-war-say-unicef-and-msf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-children-being-brutalized-in-sudans-civil-war-say-unicef-and-msf\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Children Being Brutalized in Sudan&#8217;s Civil War, Say Unicef and MSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">United Nations \u2014 The head of the U.N. children&#8217;s program, UNICEF, said Thursday that 16 million children in Sudan are suffering horribly from the country&#8217;s civil war, with many facing daily threats of violence, starvation, disease and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;The fighting is happening right at their doorsteps, around their homes, their schools and hospitals, and across many of Sudan&#8217;s cities, towns, and villages,&#8221; Catherine Russell, UNICEF&#8217;s executive director, told a meeting of the U.N. Security&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503140015.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 The head of the U.N. children&#8217;s program, UNICEF, said Thursday that 16 million children in Sudan are suffering horribly from the country&#8217;s civil war, with many facing daily threats of violence, starvation, disease and sexual assault. &#8220;The fighting is happening right at their doorsteps, around their homes, their schools and hospitals, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":193683,"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":[258,256,41088,7371,8227,1951,257,254,4708,1613,8105,445,6618],"class_list":["post-193682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brutalized","tag-children","tag-civil","tag-msf","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-unicef","tag-war"],"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\/193682","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=193682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}