{"id":4559,"date":"2023-11-17T12:53:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2023-11-17T12:53:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T12:53:23","slug":"un-warns-sudan-armed-conflict-shouldnt-mount-to-humanitarian-calamity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/17\/un-warns-sudan-armed-conflict-shouldnt-mount-to-humanitarian-calamity\/","title":{"rendered":"UN warns: Sudan Armed Conflict shouldn\u2019t Mount to \u201cHumanitarian Calamity.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The conflict in Sudan, which has left thousands dead and seven million people displaced over seven months, is spreading to new regions of the nation, the UN said Thursday, warning of a mounting \u201chumanitarian calamity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The deadly unrest includes outbreaks of interethnic violence and attacks against women, according to the global body.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations assistant secretary-general for Africa, Ghanaian diplomat Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, expressed alarm over the deteriorating crisis in a Security Council meeting, as she told members: \u201cSudan is facing a convergence of a worsening humanitarian calamity and a catastrophic human rights crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>War erupted in Sudan on April 15, pitting army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against his former deputy, Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, in fighting that has left more than 9,000 people dead, according to the Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data Project. The number is widely considered an underestimate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHostilities have spilled over to new areas, such as Gezira, White Nile and West Kordofan states, placing even more civilians at risk as well as humanitarian operations,\u201d Pobee said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed The conflict in Sudan, which has left thousands dead and seven million people displaced over seven months, is spreading to new regions of the nation, the UN said Thursday, warning of a mounting \u201chumanitarian calamity.\u201d The deadly unrest includes outbreaks of interethnic violence and attacks against women, according to the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}