{"id":212290,"date":"2025-11-02T20:38:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-peace-in-sudan-3-reasons-why-mediation-hasnt-worked-so-far\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T18:38:28","slug":"sudan-peace-in-sudan-3-reasons-why-mediation-hasnt-worked-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-peace-in-sudan-3-reasons-why-mediation-hasnt-worked-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Peace in Sudan? 3 Reasons Why Mediation Hasn&#8217;t Worked So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Sudan has been embroiled in a civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cjel2nn22z9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2023<\/a>, sparked by a power struggle between the two parties. The war has displaced <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/sudan\/sudan-conflict-and-refugee-crisis-multi-country-external-situation-report-10-covering-reporting-period-march-april-2025#:%7E:text=The%20displacement%20in%20Sudan%20is,%2C%20Ethiopia%2C%20Libya%2C%20Central%20African\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 14 million people<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfp.org\/emergencies\/sudan#:%7E:text=A%20total%20of%2024.6%20million,threshold%20for%20a%20famine%20confirmation.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Over half the population<\/a> of about 50 million is facing acute levels of hunger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Several mediation initiatives have been launched since the start of the war, with limited success. The <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sudans-peace-mediation-should-be-led-by-the-african-union-3-reasons-why-205663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Union<\/a> has also been unable to get the main warring parties to agree to a permanent&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511010021.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>Sudan has been embroiled in a civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, sparked by a power struggle between the two parties. The war has displaced more than 14 million people. Over half the population of about 50 million is facing acute levels of hunger. Several mediation initiatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":212291,"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":[258,256,28225,16024,257,6157,7735,254,4708,1613,25624],"class_list":["post-212290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hasnt","tag-mediation","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-reasons","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-worked"],"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\/212290","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=212290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}