{"id":246208,"date":"2026-10-02T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-i-have-not-lost-my-dreams-refugee-education-funding-cuts-threaten-millions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T15:30:11","slug":"sudan-i-have-not-lost-my-dreams-refugee-education-funding-cuts-threaten-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-i-have-not-lost-my-dreams-refugee-education-funding-cuts-threaten-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;I Have Not Lost My Dreams&#8217; &#8211; Refugee Education Funding Cuts Threaten Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">A teenage girl who fled war-torn Sudan for neighbouring Egypt and hopes to pursue a technology degree is an example of why countries must ensure that young refugees can continue to learn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;When we left Sudan, I was worried that my education would stop,&#8221; said Jamila Mostafa, 19, one of the estimated 13.1 million refugee children of school age worldwide in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Yet nearly half &#8211; 5.8 million &#8211; remain out of school as funding cuts threaten to roll back years of progress in educating children and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610020143.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>A teenage girl who fled war-torn Sudan for neighbouring Egypt and hopes to pursue a technology degree is an example of why countries must ensure that young refugees can continue to learn. &#8220;When we left Sudan, I was worried that my education would stop,&#8221; said Jamila Mostafa, 19, one of the estimated 13.1 million refugee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":246209,"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":[258,256,7210,7409,1632,6141,7408,7033,257,6765,254,4708,1613,7002],"class_list":["post-246208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cuts","tag-dreams","tag-education","tag-funding","tag-lost","tag-millions","tag-news","tag-refugee","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","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\/246208","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=246208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}