{"id":237571,"date":"2026-06-27T06:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-urgently-address-the-situation-in-and-around-el-obeid-take-bold-steps-towards-atrocity-prevention-and-accountability\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T06:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:17:21","slug":"sudan-urgently-address-the-situation-in-and-around-el-obeid-take-bold-steps-towards-atrocity-prevention-and-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-urgently-address-the-situation-in-and-around-el-obeid-take-bold-steps-towards-atrocity-prevention-and-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Urgently Address the Situation in and Around El Obeid, Take Bold Steps Towards Atrocity Prevention and Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\"><em>Civil society joint letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council &#8211; HRC62<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland)<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">26 June 2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em><strong>Sudan: the Human Rights Council should urgently address the situation in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan, and take bold steps towards atrocity prevention and accountability<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Your Excellencies,<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\"><strong>In light of the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260234.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>Civil society joint letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council &#8211; HRC62 To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) 26 June 2026 Sudan: the Human Rights Council should urgently address the situation in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan, and take bold steps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237572,"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":[13948,7325,258,256,27687,7439,257,13952,6356,6325,254,9150,4708,1613,8907],"class_list":["post-237571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-accountability","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atrocity","tag-bold","tag-news","tag-obeid","tag-prevention","tag-situation","tag-south-africa-today","tag-steps","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urgently"],"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\/237571","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=237571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}