{"id":205956,"date":"2025-08-31T05:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfurs-el-fasher-an-epicentre-of-child-suffering-unicef\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T05:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T03:59:19","slug":"sudan-north-darfurs-el-fasher-an-epicentre-of-child-suffering-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfurs-el-fasher-an-epicentre-of-child-suffering-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: North Darfur&#8217;s El Fasher &#8216;An Epicentre of Child Suffering&#8217; &#8211; Unicef"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"98\">Geneva \/ Darfur \u2014 <em>The UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that after 500 days under siege, El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, has become &#8220;an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily&#8221;. UNICEF also released two new reports yesterday, entitled <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/sudan\/stories\/life-begins-run\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life begins on the run<\/a><\/em> reflects a mother&#8217;s journey through conflict and survival, and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/sudan\/stories\/trapped-war-and-hunger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trapped by war and hunger<\/a><\/em>, is an account of how mothers in El Fasher struggle to keep their children alive. Both&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290003.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 \/ Darfur \u2014 The UN Children&#8217;s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that after 500 days under siege, El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, has become &#8220;an epicentre of child suffering, with malnutrition, disease, and violence claiming young lives daily&#8221;. UNICEF also released two new reports yesterday, entitled Life begins on the run reflects a mother&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205957,"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":[258,256,8438,12955,34018,43880,257,6732,254,4708,1613,6566,445],"class_list":["post-205956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-child","tag-darfurs","tag-epicentre","tag-fasher","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-suffering","tag-unicef"],"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\/205956","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=205956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}