{"id":238336,"date":"2026-07-09T06:51:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-aid-crisis-is-also-a-crisis-of-accountability\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T06:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:51:48","slug":"sudans-aid-crisis-is-also-a-crisis-of-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-aid-crisis-is-also-a-crisis-of-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Aid Crisis Is Also a Crisis of Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">New York, United States \u2014 &#8220;What is needed is structural change: defining red lines&#8230; and being willing to escalate when those lines are crossed, publicly and collectively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The images that stay with me the most from my time serving as Sudan&#8217;s deputy humanitarian coordinator, focused on Darfur in 2024 and 2025, are familiar ones: people fleeing with nothing, children weakened by hunger, hospitals struggling to function.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Yet what I left with was not just the images of a humanitarian tragedy. It&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607090062.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>New York, United States \u2014 &#8220;What is needed is structural change: defining red lines&#8230; and being willing to escalate when those lines are crossed, publicly and collectively.&#8221; The images that stay with me the most from my time serving as Sudan&#8217;s deputy humanitarian coordinator, focused on Darfur in 2024 and 2025, are familiar ones: people [&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":[13948,258,256,7828,3723,257,254,1613,8105],"class_list":["post-238336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-crisis","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238336","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=238336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238336\/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=238336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}