{"id":195228,"date":"2025-04-02T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-on-brink-of-famine-as-fighting-ravages-darfur-un-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T22:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T20:51:05","slug":"sudan-on-brink-of-famine-as-fighting-ravages-darfur-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-on-brink-of-famine-as-fighting-ravages-darfur-un-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan On Brink of Famine As Fighting Ravages Darfur, UN Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is spiralling as rival militaries continue to battle for control of the country, with the UN expressing profound alarm on Monday over escalating hostilities, particularly in North Darfur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric warned that &#8220;the humanitarian and security situation in Sudan remains dire and is worsening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">He highlighted intense fighting around El Fasher, noting, &#8220;we are gravely alarmed by reports of intensified hostilities&#8230; including attacks in the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020005.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>The humanitarian crisis in Sudan is spiralling as rival militaries continue to battle for control of the country, with the UN expressing profound alarm on Monday over escalating hostilities, particularly in North Darfur. Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric warned that &#8220;the humanitarian and security situation in Sudan remains dire and is worsening.&#8221; He highlighted intense fighting around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661818:450798f3dd3a70b5a6e9a01f3d8a3e01:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,10134,2269,2884,4377,257,16471,254,4708,1613,6853],"class_list":["post-195228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brink","tag-darfur","tag-famine","tag-fighting","tag-news","tag-ravages","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661818:450798f3dd3a70b5a6e9a01f3d8a3e01:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195228","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=195228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}