{"id":203964,"date":"2025-08-04T15:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-over-640000-children-under-five-at-risk-as-cholera-spreads-in-sudans-north-darfur-state\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T13:45:14","slug":"sudan-over-640000-children-under-five-at-risk-as-cholera-spreads-in-sudans-north-darfur-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-over-640000-children-under-five-at-risk-as-cholera-spreads-in-sudans-north-darfur-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Over 640,000 Children Under Five At Risk As Cholera Spreads in Sudan&#8217;s North Darfur State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">Port Sudan \u2014 UNICEF calls for sustained, unimpeded access to fight the deadly outbreak<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">More than 1,180 cholera cases &#8211; including an estimated 300 cases in children &#8211; and at least 20 deaths have been reported in Tawila, North Darfur State, since the first case was detected on 21 June 2025. This represents a rapid surge in cases in the town, which has absorbed over 500,000 internally displaced people fleeing violent conflict since April this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Across the five Darfur States, the total cholera&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508040474.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>Port Sudan \u2014 UNICEF calls for sustained, unimpeded access to fight the deadly outbreak More than 1,180 cholera cases &#8211; including an estimated 300 cases in children &#8211; and at least 20 deaths have been reported in Tawila, North Darfur State, since the first case was detected on 21 June 2025. This represents a rapid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203965,"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":[258,256,7371,879,2269,257,6732,9590,254,13665,6017,4708,1613,8105],"class_list":["post-203964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-cholera","tag-darfur","tag-news","tag-north","tag-risk","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spreads","tag-state","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans"],"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\/203964","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=203964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}