{"id":241968,"date":"2026-08-23T20:38:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-takaya-community-kitchen-closures-threaten-50000-families-in-sudan-capital\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T18:38:06","slug":"sudan-takaya-community-kitchen-closures-threaten-50000-families-in-sudan-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-takaya-community-kitchen-closures-threaten-50000-families-in-sudan-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Takaya&#8217; Community Kitchen Closures Threaten 50,000 Families in Sudan Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"79\">Khartoum \u2014 <em>All charitable community kitchens, known as <em>takayas<\/em>, operating in southern Khartoum have stopped working, causing a severe humanitarian deterioration that threatens the lives of tens of thousands of families and displaced people. A member of the Southern Belt Emergency Committees told Radio Dabanga that the kitchens stopped operating after the army retook the area and external funding and grants to organisations including Sadaqat, Hazirin and Nidaa were cut off. The organisations had&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210428.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>Khartoum \u2014 All charitable community kitchens, known as takayas, operating in southern Khartoum have stopped working, causing a severe humanitarian deterioration that threatens the lives of tens of thousands of families and displaced people. A member of the Southern Belt Emergency Committees told Radio Dabanga that the kitchens stopped operating after the army retook the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241969,"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":[258,256,6959,10538,7963,9255,32460,257,254,4708,1613,55251,7002],"class_list":["post-241968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-closures","tag-community","tag-families","tag-kitchen","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-takaya","tag-threaten"],"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\/241968","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=241968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}