{"id":39062,"date":"2024-12-21T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39062"},"modified":"2024-12-21T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T22:36:10","slug":"blinken-the-sudan-crisis-threatens-global-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/21\/blinken-the-sudan-crisis-threatens-global-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinken: The Sudan Crisis Threatens Global Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed during a UN Security Council meeting in New York that the Sudanese crisis has unprecedented humanitarian and political dimensions, adding that the ongoing conflict threatens global security and peace.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Blinken said: \u201cThe world cannot turn a blind eye to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in Sudan, and it should not.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He announced an additional $200 million in humanitarian aid, bringing the total US support to $2.3 billion since the fighting began in April 2023.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Blinken pointed out the suffering of Sudanese refugees who have resorted to eating grass and pistachio shells to survive in the Zamzam camp, where estimates suggest that a child dies every two hours due to food shortages.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He also mentioned international initiatives like the &#8220;Alliance for Strengthening Life-saving and Peace Efforts in Sudan,&#8221; launched by the US in collaboration with Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, and other countries, which helped deliver aid to 3.5 million people inside Sudan.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Blinken stressed the importance of opening safe humanitarian corridors and removing obstacles to aid distribution, emphasizing that civilian lives depend on these actions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He added that international efforts have made progress in vaccinating over 1.4 million Sudanese against cholera.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Blinken criticized the role of external parties in exacerbating the conflict, calling for an end to support for both warring parties.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed during a UN Security Council meeting in New York that the Sudanese crisis has unprecedented humanitarian and political dimensions, adding that the ongoing conflict threatens global security and peace. Blinken said: \u201cThe world cannot turn a blind eye to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39064,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39062\/revisions\/39064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}