{"id":221702,"date":"2026-01-23T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudanese-refugee-children-haunted-by-traumas-of-war\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T23:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T21:54:22","slug":"sudanese-refugee-children-haunted-by-traumas-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudanese-refugee-children-haunted-by-traumas-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese Refugee Children Haunted By Traumas of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">Kampala \u2014 <em><em>By Abdelmoneim Madibu for Radio Dabanga<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"139\"><strong>During the days of the Ugandan general elections, the sight of security planes flying over the capital, Kampala, was not a passing event for many Sudanese refugee children and women, but rather a direct trigger for recalling the traumas of the war that have not yet healed. As the sounds of warplanes echoed across the city&#8217;s skies for three consecutive days, some Sudanese children and women relived the scenes they had experienced during the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230067.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>Kampala \u2014 By Abdelmoneim Madibu for Radio Dabanga During the days of the Ugandan general elections, the sight of security planes flying over the capital, Kampala, was not a passing event for many Sudanese refugee children and women, but rather a direct trigger for recalling the traumas of the war that have not yet healed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221703,"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":[258,256,7371,12660,257,6765,254,1613,7296,40351,6618],"class_list":["post-221702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-children","tag-haunted","tag-news","tag-refugee","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-traumas","tag-war"],"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\/221702","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=221702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}