{"id":198757,"date":"2025-05-25T00:45:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-returning-home-to-central-sudan-hope-and-hardships\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T00:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T22:45:42","slug":"sudan-returning-home-to-central-sudan-hope-and-hardships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-returning-home-to-central-sudan-hope-and-hardships\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Returning Home to Central Sudan, Hope and Hardships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">After the army achieved a series of military victories in central Sudan, many Sudanese have begun a journey home. The army reclaimed several strategic locations: Sennar in December last year, the capital of Al-Jazeera State, Wad Medani, in January, and the country&#8217;s capital, Khartoum, last March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Often struggling to survive in displacement shelters, nearly 400,000 internally displaced people returned home from December to March, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505220030.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>After the army achieved a series of military victories in central Sudan, many Sudanese have begun a journey home. The army reclaimed several strategic locations: Sennar in December last year, the capital of Al-Jazeera State, Wad Medani, in January, and the country&#8217;s capital, Khartoum, last March. Often struggling to survive in displacement shelters, nearly 400,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198758,"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\/00630311:060a077c1edd444f34362eabc5280f93:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,5934,43058,8849,8868,257,8764,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-198757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-hardships","tag-home","tag-hope","tag-news","tag-returning","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00630311:060a077c1edd444f34362eabc5280f93:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198757","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=198757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}