{"id":207498,"date":"2025-09-18T06:53:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-those-forcibly-disappeared-in-the-sudan-war-an-open-wound-for-thousands-swallowed-by-absence\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T06:53:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T04:53:57","slug":"sudan-those-forcibly-disappeared-in-the-sudan-war-an-open-wound-for-thousands-swallowed-by-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-those-forcibly-disappeared-in-the-sudan-war-an-open-wound-for-thousands-swallowed-by-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Those Forcibly Disappeared in the Sudan War &#8211; an Open Wound for Thousands Swallowed By Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"137\">Khartoum \u2014 <strong>Waleed has returned after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-demand-truth-and-justice-for-loved-ones-who-disappeared\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced disappearance<\/a> that lasted more than two years since the beginning of the Sudan war between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). He returned but he is no longer the same, he did not recognise his child and his family. He returned lost and knows nothing but to repeat the words of distress from torture. Waleed appeared in the lists of detainees who were freed after the Sudanese army recaptured the city of Khartoum. His family did not&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509170010.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>Khartoum \u2014 Waleed has returned after a forced disappearance that lasted more than two years since the beginning of the Sudan war between the Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). He returned but he is no longer the same, he did not recognise his child and his family. He returned lost and knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":207499,"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":[11086,258,256,33678,7656,257,5983,254,4708,1613,28695,9216,6618,42245],"class_list":["post-207498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-absence","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-disappeared","tag-forcibly","tag-news","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-swallowed","tag-thousands","tag-war","tag-wound"],"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\/207498","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=207498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}