{"id":28071,"date":"2024-04-20T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/800000-people-in-extreme-immediate-danger-in-sudan-city-un-warns\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T09:04:53","slug":"800000-people-in-extreme-immediate-danger-in-sudan-city-un-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/800000-people-in-extreme-immediate-danger-in-sudan-city-un-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"800,000 people in extreme, immediate danger in Sudan city-UN warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Top United Nations, UN, officials have warned that 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in \u201cextreme and immediate danger\u201d as worsening violence advances and threatens to unleash bloody inter-communal strife throughout Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that war broke out in Sudan one year ago between the Sudanese army, SAF, and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF, creating the world\u2019s largest displacement crisis.<\/p>\n<p>UN political affairs chief, Rosemary DiCarlo told the 15-member Security Council that clashes between RSF and SAF-aligned members of the Joint Protection Forces were nearing the capital of North Darfur, El Fasher.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFighting in El Fasher could unleash bloody inter-communal strife throughout Darfur,\u201d DiCarlo said, echoing a warning by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The UN has said nearly 25 million people, half of Sudan\u2019s population, need aid and some 8 million have fled their homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe violence poses an extreme and immediate danger to the 800,000 civilians who reside in El Fasher,\u201d said the UN aid operations director, Edem Wosornu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it risks triggering further violence in other parts of Darfur \u2013 where more than 9 million people are in dire need of humanitarian assistance,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>A United Nations-backed global authority on food security said late last month that immediate action is needed to \u201cprevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Donors pledged more than 2 billion dollars for war+torn Sudan at a conference in Paris on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>800,000 people in extreme, immediate danger in Sudan city-UN warns<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top United Nations, UN, officials have warned that 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in \u201cextreme and immediate danger\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11022,5904],"tags":[180,11023],"class_list":["post-28071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sudan","category-un","tag-news","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}