{"id":3434,"date":"2025-10-25T14:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/el-fasher-siege-starvation-and-a-media-blackout\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T14:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T14:35:20","slug":"el-fasher-siege-starvation-and-a-media-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/2025\/10\/25\/el-fasher-siege-starvation-and-a-media-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"El-Fasher: Siege, starvation and a media blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Listening Post<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/header>\n

As el-Fasher is starved, Sudanese journalists struggle to report a war buried by blackouts and global neglect.<\/p>\n

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El-Fasher, Sudan: a city besieged, starving and largely unseen. As journalists come under fire in Sudan, a lack of international media interest is helping to conceal one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n

Contributors:
<\/strong>Hassan Berkia \u2013 Journalist
Kholood Khair \u2013 Director, Confluence Advisory
Khalid Medani \u2013 Associate Professor, McGill Institute of Islamic Studies<\/p>\n

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Featuring:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Roman Gautam \u2013 Editor, Himal Southasian
Deepak Kumar Goswami \u2013 Filmmaker & actor
Smita Sharma \u2013 Journalist<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Listening Post As el-Fasher is starved, Sudanese journalists struggle to report a war buried by blackouts and global neglect. El-Fasher, Sudan: a city besieged, starving and largely unseen. As journalists come under fire in Sudan, a lack of international media interest is helping to conceal one of the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises. Contributors: Hassan … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}