{"id":206726,"date":"2025-09-10T18:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-people-of-sudan-need-action-not-sympathy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T18:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:25:17","slug":"sudan-people-of-sudan-need-action-not-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-people-of-sudan-need-action-not-sympathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: People of Sudan &#8216;Need Action, Not Sympathy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Geneva \u2014 &#8220;Civilians are not simply caught in the crossfire; they are being deliberately targeted, displaced, and starved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The chair of the UN\u2019s Independent Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, painted a grim picture of life in the north-east African country, saying the people need action, not sympathy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">\u201cSudan is enduring a war of atrocities,\u201d said Othman, speaking about the conflict afflicting Africa\u2019s third biggest country by area on September 9 at the Human Rights&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509100529.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 \u2014 &#8220;Civilians are not simply caught in the crossfire; they are being deliberately targeted, displaced, and starved.&#8221; The chair of the UN\u2019s Independent Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman, painted a grim picture of life in the north-east African country, saying the people need action, not sympathy. \u201cSudan is enduring a war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206727,"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":[6394,258,256,257,6321,254,4708,1613,38018],"class_list":["post-206726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-people","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sympathy"],"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\/206726","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=206726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}