{"id":220102,"date":"2026-01-11T23:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-news-un-warns-of-rising-civilian-risks-as-ethiopia-aid-cuts-deepen-and-violence-escalates-in-sudan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:27:08","slug":"sudan-news-un-warns-of-rising-civilian-risks-as-ethiopia-aid-cuts-deepen-and-violence-escalates-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-news-un-warns-of-rising-civilian-risks-as-ethiopia-aid-cuts-deepen-and-violence-escalates-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: News &#8211; UN Warns of Rising Civilian Risks As Ethiopia Aid Cuts Deepen and Violence Escalates in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Addis Abeba \u2014 The United Nations has warned that civilians are facing growing risks across multiple crisis zones, with funding shortages pushing Ethiopia&#8217;s refugee response to the brink, while renewed violence in Sudan and continued attacks in Ukraine exacerbate global humanitarian concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2026\/01\/1166703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In a briefing on 5 January 2026,<\/a> the UN echoed a joint warning issued on 19 December by Ethiopia&#8217;s Refugees and Returnees Service (RRS), the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the World Food&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100233.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>Addis Abeba \u2014 The United Nations has warned that civilians are facing growing risks across multiple crisis zones, with funding shortages pushing Ethiopia&#8217;s refugee response to the brink, while renewed violence in Sudan and continued attacks in Ukraine exacerbate global humanitarian concerns. In a briefing on 5 January 2026, the UN echoed a joint warning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220103,"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":[258,256,7828,16783,7210,7683,8580,4716,257,6678,7349,254,4708,1613,2148,6853],"class_list":["post-220102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-civilian","tag-cuts","tag-deepen","tag-escalates","tag-ethiopia","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-risks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-violence","tag-warns"],"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\/220102","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=220102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}