{"id":229583,"date":"2026-04-05T14:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-statement-by-who-director-general-on-sudan-conflict-and-humanitarian-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T12:33:54","slug":"sudan-statement-by-who-director-general-on-sudan-conflict-and-humanitarian-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-statement-by-who-director-general-on-sudan-conflict-and-humanitarian-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Statement by WHO Director-General on Sudan conflict and humanitarian crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\"><em>The World Health Organization urges the international community: do not ignore Sudan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Sudan is confronting one of the gravest humanitarian and public health emergencies in the world today. More than 33.7 million people, over half of the nation&#8217;s population, now require urgent, life\u2011saving assistance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The ongoing conflict has pushed the health system to the edge of complete collapse. Recent attacks on medical facilities have further deepened this crisis. On March 20, a drone strike on Al-Daein&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604040170.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>The World Health Organization urges the international community: do not ignore Sudan. Sudan is confronting one of the gravest humanitarian and public health emergencies in the world today. More than 33.7 million people, over half of the nation&#8217;s population, now require urgent, life\u2011saving assistance. The ongoing conflict has pushed the health system to the edge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":229584,"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":[258,256,2444,3723,6124,6068,257,254,6065,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-229583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conflict","tag-crisis","tag-directorgeneral","tag-humanitarian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","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\/229583","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=229583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}