{"id":206050,"date":"2025-09-01T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-should-act-to-protect-starving-civilians\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T16:03:02","slug":"sudan-un-should-act-to-protect-starving-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-should-act-to-protect-starving-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN Should Act to Protect Starving Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">New York \u2014 <em>Security Council Should Intervene to Halt Attacks on Civilians, Allow Aid to Enter<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/topic\/united-nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United Nations<\/a> Security Council members should urgently act to protect civilians in western parts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan<\/a> from unlawful attacks and starvation, Human Rights Watch said today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"109\">The Security Council should pressure the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end their unlawful attacks against civilians, including on displaced persons camps, in parts of western Sudan and both warring parties to stop blocking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509010019.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 \u2014 Security Council Should Intervene to Halt Attacks on Civilians, Allow Aid to Enter United Nations Security Council members should urgently act to protect civilians in western parts of Sudan from unlawful attacks and starvation, Human Rights Watch said today. The Security Council should pressure the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206051,"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":[6991,258,256,13304,257,6202,254,21806,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-206050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civilians","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starving","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/206050","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=206050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}