{"id":242773,"date":"2026-08-31T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-returnees-face-severe-challenges-in-khartoum-as-sudans-capital-struggles-to-recover-from-war\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T18:55:06","slug":"sudan-returnees-face-severe-challenges-in-khartoum-as-sudans-capital-struggles-to-recover-from-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-returnees-face-severe-challenges-in-khartoum-as-sudans-capital-struggles-to-recover-from-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Returnees Face Severe Challenges in Khartoum As Sudan&#8217;s Capital Struggles to Recover From War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Khartoum \u2014 <em>Sudan&#8217;s capital, Khartoum, is caught between a slow attempt at recovery and a difficult daily reality, with eyewitnesses telling Radio Dabanga about the hardships facing residents and people returning after more than three years of war in the capital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\"><strong>The UN says about 2.1m people have arrived in Khartoum state after being displaced internally or across borders, out of 4.7m people who have returned to their homes. In its <a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/report\/sudan\/unhcr-khartoum-returns-report-june-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">latest report<\/a>, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) says returnees to&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608310048.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 Sudan&#8217;s capital, Khartoum, is caught between a slow attempt at recovery and a difficult daily reality, with eyewitnesses telling Radio Dabanga about the hardships facing residents and people returning after more than three years of war in the capital. The UN says about 2.1m people have arrived in Khartoum state after being displaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650416:892b6d7e8d61031e94aa790d70d6f1d6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6959,6977,7127,1616,257,11725,8179,13198,254,12928,4708,1613,8105,6618],"class_list":["post-242773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-challenges","tag-face","tag-khartoum","tag-news","tag-recover","tag-returnees","tag-severe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struggles","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650416:892b6d7e8d61031e94aa790d70d6f1d6:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242773","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=242773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}