{"id":194319,"date":"2025-03-23T10:24:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-usaid-cuts-are-worst-ive-ever-seen-says-sudanese-aid-worker\/"},"modified":"2025-03-23T10:24:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T08:24:24","slug":"sudan-usaid-cuts-are-worst-ive-ever-seen-says-sudanese-aid-worker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-usaid-cuts-are-worst-ive-ever-seen-says-sudanese-aid-worker\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: USAID Cuts Are &#8216;Worst I&#8217;ve Ever Seen,&#8217; Says Sudanese Aid Worker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>What&#8217;s the context?<\/em> <em>The head of the Practical Action charity in Sudan says USAID cuts have left communities without power and water during Ramadan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">With more than 30 years experience as a humanitarian worker in Sudan, Muna Eltahir thought she had seen it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The northeastern African nation has in recent years witnessed mass public protests and coups and is embroiled in an almost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.context.news\/money-power-people\/sudans-war-risks-lost-generation-of-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-year civil war<\/a> which has pitted the Sudanese army against rebel Rapid Support Forces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Throughout these&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210005.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>Nairobi \u2014 What&#8217;s the context? The head of the Practical Action charity in Sudan says USAID cuts have left communities without power and water during Ramadan. With more than 30 years experience as a humanitarian worker in Sudan, Muna Eltahir thought she had seen it all. The northeastern African nation has in recent years witnessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":194320,"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":[258,256,7828,7210,15216,257,254,4708,1613,7296,1194,8196,10849],"class_list":["post-194319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-cuts","tag-ive","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-usaid","tag-worker","tag-worst"],"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\/194319","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=194319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}