{"id":199739,"date":"2025-06-07T13:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-cholera-ravages-sudans-war-torn-capital\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T11:43:27","slug":"sudan-cholera-ravages-sudans-war-torn-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-cholera-ravages-sudans-war-torn-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Cholera Ravages Sudan&#8217;s War-Torn Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>&#8220;For children already weakened by a lack of nutritious food, cholera or any other causes of severe diarrhea can be fatal,&#8221; UNICEF has said, warning that over a million children are at risk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">A rapidly spreading cholera is ravaging war-torn Sudan&#8217;s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city, Omdurman, which have been left with no supply of water or electricity and few hospitals, most of which have ceased operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Set to worsen with the onset of the monsoon, the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506060117.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>&#8220;For children already weakened by a lack of nutritious food, cholera or any other causes of severe diarrhea can be fatal,&#8221; UNICEF has said, warning that over a million children are at risk. A rapidly spreading cholera is ravaging war-torn Sudan&#8217;s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city, Omdurman, which have been left with no supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199740,"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":[258,256,6959,879,257,16471,254,4708,1613,8105,8143],"class_list":["post-199739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-cholera","tag-news","tag-ravages","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-wartorn"],"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\/199739","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=199739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}