{"id":238282,"date":"2026-07-08T06:47:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-education-is-not-a-cost-it-is-one-of-sudans-most-strategic-investments\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:47:39","slug":"sudan-education-is-not-a-cost-it-is-one-of-sudans-most-strategic-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-education-is-not-a-cost-it-is-one-of-sudans-most-strategic-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Education Is Not a Cost&#8211;It Is One of Sudan&#8217;s Most Strategic Investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"76\">UNESCO, in partnership with the Sudanese National Commission for Education, Science and Culture (NATCOM) and the Federal Ministry of Education, convened a <strong>High-Level Meeting on the Price of Inaction Study<\/strong> in Omdurman, bringing together representatives from the Ministry of Interior (Departments of Social Services and Correctional Services), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare, the Department of School Health at the Federal Ministry of Health, members of the National Technical Team,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607070503.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>UNESCO, in partnership with the Sudanese National Commission for Education, Science and Culture (NATCOM) and the Federal Ministry of Education, convened a High-Level Meeting on the Price of Inaction Study in Omdurman, bringing together representatives from the Ministry of Interior (Departments of Social Services and Correctional Services), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Welfare, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,54803,1632,5801,257,254,8007,4708,1613,8105],"class_list":["post-238282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-costit","tag-education","tag-investments","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238282","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=238282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}