{"id":221799,"date":"2026-01-24T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/uganda-for-sudanese-refugee-women-in-uganda-a-cup-of-coffee-and-a-space-to-speak\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:55:54","slug":"uganda-for-sudanese-refugee-women-in-uganda-a-cup-of-coffee-and-a-space-to-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/uganda-for-sudanese-refugee-women-in-uganda-a-cup-of-coffee-and-a-space-to-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda: For Sudanese Refugee Women in Uganda, a Cup of Coffee and a Space to Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Kampala \u2014 &#8220;I heard others telling their stories, and I felt they were similar to my own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">In a small room in Kampala, over cups of coffee and quiet conversation, Sudanese refugee women gather to speak about what they have endured. War, displacement, and loss hang in the air &#8211; but so does something else: relief at having a safe space to speak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">These gatherings are part of Funjan Niswan, a grassroots initiative run by Aminat, a women-led organisation that offers psychological support to Sudanese&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230056.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 &#8220;I heard others telling their stories, and I felt they were similar to my own.&#8221; In a small room in Kampala, over cups of coffee and quiet conversation, Sudanese refugee women gather to speak about what they have endured. War, displacement, and loss hang in the air &#8211; but so does something else: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221800,"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\/00651159:356994f1fe51a399cbf6f3091cb2c240:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,15527,6674,257,6765,254,5215,8676,1613,7296,4707,6524],"class_list":["post-221799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coffee","tag-cup","tag-news","tag-refugee","tag-south-africa-today","tag-space","tag-speak","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-uganda","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651159:356994f1fe51a399cbf6f3091cb2c240:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221799","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=221799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}