{"id":229003,"date":"2026-03-30T02:20:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-child-killed-as-blaze-destroys-900-homes-in-north-darfur-camp\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T02:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:20:56","slug":"sudan-child-killed-as-blaze-destroys-900-homes-in-north-darfur-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-child-killed-as-blaze-destroys-900-homes-in-north-darfur-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Child Killed As Blaze Destroys 900+ Homes in North Darfur Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Tawila \u2014 <em>A child has died and another person injured after a major fire tore through a displacement camp in North Darfur, destroying more than 900 homes. The blaze broke out on Saturday at El Omda camp in the town of Tawila, according to a report by the Coordination of Emergency Rooms in Jebel Marra and Tawila.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">It began at around 12:30 local time on the second day of Eid El Fitr and spread rapidly through the densely populated camp, causing widespread destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The report said 903 homes were&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603250011.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>Tawila \u2014 A child has died and another person injured after a major fire tore through a displacement camp in North Darfur, destroying more than 900 homes. The blaze broke out on Saturday at El Omda camp in the town of Tawila, according to a report by the Coordination of Emergency Rooms in Jebel Marra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229004,"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":[258,256,25547,6835,8438,2269,11462,11282,4327,257,6732,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-229003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blaze","tag-camp","tag-child","tag-darfur","tag-destroys","tag-homes","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-north","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/229003","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=229003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}