{"id":208745,"date":"2025-10-02T07:27:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-el-fasher-civilians-urgently-need-protection-and-safe-passage\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T07:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T05:27:58","slug":"sudan-el-fasher-civilians-urgently-need-protection-and-safe-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-el-fasher-civilians-urgently-need-protection-and-safe-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: El Fasher &#8211; Civilians Urgently Need Protection and Safe Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">(El Geneina, West Darfur; 29 September 2025) Civilians in El Fasher, North Darfur, describe impossible choices as they remain trapped in the city or attempt to flee, only to face violence, harassment and looting along insecure routes. The UN has received reports of unlawful killings, abductions and arbitrary detention &#8212; alongside indiscriminate attacks on markets, hospitals and places of worship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Under international humanitarian law, civilians must be protected. Safe passage must be guaranteed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510020080.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>(El Geneina, West Darfur; 29 September 2025) Civilians in El Fasher, North Darfur, describe impossible choices as they remain trapped in the city or attempt to flee, only to face violence, harassment and looting along insecure routes. The UN has received reports of unlawful killings, abductions and arbitrary detention &#8212; alongside indiscriminate attacks on markets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208746,"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":[258,256,13304,43880,257,10527,7897,6803,254,4708,1613,8907],"class_list":["post-208745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-civilians","tag-fasher","tag-news","tag-passage","tag-protection","tag-safe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urgently"],"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\/208745","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=208745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}