{"id":196450,"date":"2025-04-20T23:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-no-respite-for-civilians-amid-unrelenting-war-and-aid-access-barriers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-20T23:29:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T21:29:44","slug":"sudan-no-respite-for-civilians-amid-unrelenting-war-and-aid-access-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-no-respite-for-civilians-amid-unrelenting-war-and-aid-access-barriers\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: No Respite for Civilians Amid Unrelenting War and Aid Access Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">As Sudan&#8217;s civil war grinds on, millions of civilians remain trapped in a relentless cycle of displacement, hunger and violence, while relief efforts are stifled by insecurity and bureaucratic hurdles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Into its third year, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/focus\/sudan-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the conflict<\/a> between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has created the world&#8217;s largest displacement crisis, devastating infrastructure and essential services across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2025\/04\/1162241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12.5 million people have been forced from their homes<\/a>,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504180010.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>As Sudan&#8217;s civil war grinds on, millions of civilians remain trapped in a relentless cycle of displacement, hunger and violence, while relief efforts are stifled by insecurity and bureaucratic hurdles. Into its third year, the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has created the world&#8217;s largest displacement crisis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196451,"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":[6450,258,256,7828,6894,13304,257,36860,254,4708,1613,32512,6618],"class_list":["post-196450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-access","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-barriers","tag-civilians","tag-news","tag-respite","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-unrelenting","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\/196450","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=196450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}