{"id":218465,"date":"2025-12-29T22:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-el-fasher-an-epicentre-of-human-suffering-un-says-after-short-visit\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T22:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:57:50","slug":"sudans-el-fasher-an-epicentre-of-human-suffering-un-says-after-short-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-el-fasher-an-epicentre-of-human-suffering-un-says-after-short-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s El-Fasher &#8216;An Epicentre of Human Suffering&#8217;, UN Says After Short Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em> Traumatised civilians left in Sudan&#8217;s El-Fasher after its capture by paramilitary RSF forces are living without water or sanitation in a city haunted by famine, says UN aid coordinator Denise Brown after making the agency&#8217;s first visit in almost two years. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">El-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur State, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/international-news\/20251028-warnings-grow-of-executions-ethnic-cleansing-in-sudan-s-el-fasher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fell to the paramilitary<\/a> Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in October after more than 500 days of siege.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">For the first time in nearly two years, a small UN humanitarian team was able to make a short&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290457.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>Traumatised civilians left in Sudan&#8217;s El-Fasher after its capture by paramilitary RSF forces are living without water or sanitation in a city haunted by famine, says UN aid coordinator Denise Brown after making the agency&#8217;s first visit in almost two years. El-Fasher, the capital of the North Darfur State, fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218466,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680336:105a64497e7f6fd9f25ba12d222c2290:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,48775,34018,3575,257,5196,254,1613,8105,6566,6250],"class_list":["post-218465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-elfasher","tag-epicentre","tag-human","tag-news","tag-short","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-suffering","tag-visit"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680336:105a64497e7f6fd9f25ba12d222c2290:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218465","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=218465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}