{"id":223972,"date":"2026-02-16T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-women-for-peace-and-justice-platform-holds-womens-solidarity-vigil-on-sidelines-of-african-union-summit\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T12:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:47:58","slug":"sudan-women-for-peace-and-justice-platform-holds-womens-solidarity-vigil-on-sidelines-of-african-union-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-women-for-peace-and-justice-platform-holds-womens-solidarity-vigil-on-sidelines-of-african-union-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Women for Peace and Justice Platform Holds Women&#8217;s Solidarity Vigil On Sidelines of African Union Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Port Sudan, Feb. 14, 2026 (SUNA) &#8211; The Women for Peace and Justice Platform organized a large solidarity vigil for women on the sidelines of the African leaders&#8217; summit of the African Union, currently being held in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">Ibtisam Al-Sheikh, Secretary-General of the platform, said in a statement to SUNA that the event aimed to convey the voice of Sudanese women facing severe challenges as a result of the ongoing conflict. She said participants delivered an urgent appeal to a number of African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602160202.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>Port Sudan, Feb. 14, 2026 (SUNA) &#8211; The Women for Peace and Justice Platform organized a large solidarity vigil for women on the sidelines of the African leaders&#8217; summit of the African Union, currently being held in Addis Ababa. Ibtisam Al-Sheikh, Secretary-General of the platform, said in a statement to SUNA that the event aimed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":223973,"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":[258,256,4380,6275,6852,257,6157,7658,14525,7728,254,4708,1613,5757,6156,16480,6524,6460],"class_list":["post-223972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-holds","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-platform","tag-sidelines","tag-solidarity","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-summit","tag-union","tag-vigil","tag-women","tag-womens"],"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\/223972","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=223972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}