{"id":204792,"date":"2025-08-16T04:10:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-warns-of-famine-as-darfur-union-uk-accuses-rsf-of-genocidal-siege\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T04:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T02:10:28","slug":"sudan-un-warns-of-famine-as-darfur-union-uk-accuses-rsf-of-genocidal-siege","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-warns-of-famine-as-darfur-union-uk-accuses-rsf-of-genocidal-siege\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN Warns of Famine As Darfur Union UK Accuses RSF of &#8216;Genocidal Siege&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">New York \/ London \/ El Fasher \/ Zamzam Camp \/ Abu Shouk Camp \u2014 <em>The United Nations has warned of famine, mass killings, and a fast-spreading cholera outbreak in Sudan, saying civilians face &#8220;a deepening crisis&#8221;. The warning came as the Darfur Union in the United Kingdom accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied factions of committing &#8220;genocide&#8221; in El Fasher, North Darfur, during what it called their 227th failed attempt to seize the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">UN Spokesman St\u00e9phane Dujarric told&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508150010.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>New York \/ London \/ El Fasher \/ Zamzam Camp \/ Abu Shouk Camp \u2014 The United Nations has warned of famine, mass killings, and a fast-spreading cholera outbreak in Sudan, saying civilians face &#8220;a deepening crisis&#8221;. The warning came as the Darfur Union in the United Kingdom accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":204793,"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":[5070,258,256,2269,2884,46345,257,2830,4940,254,4708,1613,6156,6853],"class_list":["post-204792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-famine","tag-genocidal","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-siege","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-union","tag-warns"],"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\/204792","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=204792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}