{"id":197222,"date":"2025-05-01T23:55:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-warns-of-deepening-crisis-in-sudan-as-famine-spreads-and-violence-escalates\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T23:55:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T21:55:39","slug":"sudan-un-warns-of-deepening-crisis-in-sudan-as-famine-spreads-and-violence-escalates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-warns-of-deepening-crisis-in-sudan-as-famine-spreads-and-violence-escalates\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN Warns of Deepening Crisis in Sudan As Famine Spreads and Violence Escalates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The United Nations has warned that Sudan is sliding deeper into catastrophe, with growing famine and surging violence &#8211; particularly in North Darfur &#8211; driving mass displacement and an alarming rise in civilian deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/en\/content\/sg\/statement\/2025-04-30\/statement-attributable-the-spokesperson-for-the-secretary-general-sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> issued by his Spokesperson on Wednesday, UN <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/a> said he was &#8220;appalled&#8221; by the deteriorating situation in North Darfur<\/strong>, where the regional capital, El Fasher, is under intense and sustained attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The onslaught comes just two weeks after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010006.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 United Nations has warned that Sudan is sliding deeper into catastrophe, with growing famine and surging violence &#8211; particularly in North Darfur &#8211; driving mass displacement and an alarming rise in civilian deaths. In a statement issued by his Spokesperson on Wednesday, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres said he was &#8220;appalled&#8221; by the deteriorating situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197223,"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\/00661355:e3250760448f9f84bfc84bdf090c1444:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,3723,16034,8580,2884,257,254,13665,4708,1613,2148,6853],"class_list":["post-197222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crisis","tag-deepening","tag-escalates","tag-famine","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spreads","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-violence","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661355:e3250760448f9f84bfc84bdf090c1444:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197222","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=197222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}