{"id":204078,"date":"2025-08-06T03:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-children-in-sudan-reduced-to-skin-and-bones-as-unicef-calls-for-urgent-action\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:48:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:48:23","slug":"sudan-children-in-sudan-reduced-to-skin-and-bones-as-unicef-calls-for-urgent-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-children-in-sudan-reduced-to-skin-and-bones-as-unicef-calls-for-urgent-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Children in Sudan &#8216;Reduced to Skin and Bones&#8217; as UNICEF Calls For Urgent Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">GENEVA\/PORT SUDAN \u2014 <em>This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Sudan Representative Sheldon Yett \u2013 to whom quoted text may be attributed &#8211; at today&#8217;s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">\u201cOver the past week, I travelled from Port Sudan to Aj Jazeera and Khartoum States, witnessing the impact that this crisis \u2013 the world\u2019s largest humanitarian crisis \u2013 is having on children and families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">\u201cDuring the mission, I saw homes, houses, and buildings destroyed. I saw our&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508050538.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>GENEVA\/PORT SUDAN \u2014 This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF Sudan Representative Sheldon Yett \u2013 to whom quoted text may be attributed &#8211; at today&#8217;s press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva \u201cOver the past week, I travelled from Port Sudan to Aj Jazeera and Khartoum States, witnessing the impact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204079,"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\/00661582:73ff86c3166b47c7e3fee5d6cfaa7909:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[6394,258,256,31685,6137,7371,257,9736,18091,254,4708,1613,445,11318],"class_list":["post-204078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bones","tag-calls","tag-children","tag-news","tag-reduced","tag-skin","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-unicef","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661582:73ff86c3166b47c7e3fee5d6cfaa7909:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204078","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=204078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}