{"id":181448,"date":"2015-12-17T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dabangasudan.preview.websight.nl\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1\/"},"modified":"2015-12-17T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T15:56:00","slug":"sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1","title":{"rendered":"Sudan closes all Tearfund offices in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Monday, government officials visited the offices of Tearfund across Sudan and ordered them closed until further notice.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Individual staff members, personal belongings, and organisational assets have been treated with respect,&rdquo; Tearfund says in a brief statement on their website.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The reasons for the closure are not known at this time. Tearfund has a cordial working relationship with the Government of Sudan at local and national levels.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We are actively seeking the Government&rsquo;s direction on how to proceed in order to resume our humanitarian activities.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Tearfund project beneficiaries are our greatest concern at this time.&nbsp;Tearfund has been working in Darfur since 2004, and is currently delivering life-saving humanitarian assistance with a focus on nutrition, food security, water and sanitation,&rdquo;&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tearfund.org\/en\/media\/press_releases\/tearfund_statement_our_work_in_sudan\/\" style=\"line-height: 20.8px;\">statement<\/a>&nbsp;reads.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Dabanga reported earlier this week that security agents raided the organisation&rsquo;s office in Nierteti on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They seized all the materials, equipment, and devices, including more than SDG250,000 ($39,220) cash in the treasurer&rsquo;s safe, and personal belongings of the staff members,&rdquo; an eyewitness reported.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They then took the foreign and Sudanese staff to the office of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) in Nierteti.&rdquo; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sws_supernormalaction\"><button on=\"tap:superwebshare-lightbox\" class=\"superwebshare_normal_button1 superwebshare-button-large superwebshare-button-square superwebshare_prompt superwebshare_button_svg\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color: #d52631;\" ><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"superwebshare-svg\"  fill=\"currentColor\" viewBox=\"0 0 1000 1000\" stroke=\"currentColor\" stroke-width=\"0\"><path stroke-linecap=\"round\" stroke-linejoin=\"round\" d=\"M789.86,323.67c91.79,0,164.25-72.46,164.25-164.25S881.64,0,789.86,0S625.6,72.46,625.6,164.25c0,4.83,0,14.49,0,24.15L306.76,371.98c-24.15-24.15-57.97-33.82-96.62-33.82c-91.79,0-164.25,72.46-164.25,164.25s72.46,164.25,164.25,164.25c38.65,0,72.46-14.49,96.62-33.82L625.6,821.26c0,9.66,0,14.49,0,19.32c0,86.96,72.46,159.42,159.42,159.42s159.42-72.46,159.42-159.42s-67.63-159.42-154.59-159.42c-33.82,0-67.63,9.66-96.62,33.82L374.4,526.57c0-9.66,0-19.32,0-24.15s0-14.49,0-24.15l318.84-188.41C717.39,314.01,751.21,323.67,789.86,323.67z\" \/><\/svg><span>Share article<\/span><\/button><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, government officials visited the offices of Tearfund across Sudan and ordered them closed until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndividual staff members, personal belongings, and organisational assets have been treated with respect,\u201d Tearfund says in a brief statement on their website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reasons for the closure are not known at this time. Tearfund has a cordial working relationship with the Government of Sudan at local and national levels. We are actively seeking the Government\u2019s direction on how to proceed in order to resume our humanitarian activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTearfund project beneficiaries are our greatest concern at this time. Tearfund has been working in Darfur since 2004, and is currently delivering life-saving humanitarian assistance with a focus on nutrition, food security, water and sanitation,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n<p>Radio Dabanga reported earlier this week that security agents raided the organisation\u2019s office in Nierteti on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey seized all the materials, equipment, and devices, including more than SDG250,000 ($39,220) cash in the treasurer\u2019s safe, and personal belongings of the staff members,\u201d an eyewitness reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey then took the foreign and Sudanese staff to the office of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) in Nierteti.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-involvement","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sudan closes all Tearfund offices in the country - Dabanga Radio TV Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sudan closes all Tearfund offices in the country - Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Monday, government officials visited the offices of Tearfund across Sudan and ordered them closed until further notice. \u201cIndividual staff members, personal belongings, and organisational assets have been treated with respect,\u201d Tearfund says in a brief statement on their website. \u201cThe reasons for the closure are not known at this time. 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Radio Dabanga reported earlier this week that security agents raided the organisation\u2019s office in Nierteti on Monday. \u201cThey seized all the materials, equipment, and devices, including more than SDG250,000 ($39,220) cash in the treasurer\u2019s safe, and personal belongings of the staff members,\u201d an eyewitness reported. \u201cThey then took the foreign and Sudanese staff to the office of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) in Nierteti.\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Dabanga Radio TV Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dabangasudan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-12-17T15:56:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/cropped-dabanga-logo-zondernaam-512x512-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"512\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dabanga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Radiodabanga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Radiodabanga\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dabanga\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Dabanga\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8286733fdc3467934c628badb2395f23\"},\"headline\":\"Sudan closes all Tearfund offices in the country\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-12-17T15:56:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1\"},\"wordCount\":216,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"International involvement\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.dabangasudan.org\\\/en\\\/all-news\\\/article\\\/sudan-closes-all-tearfund-offices-in-the-country-1\",\"name\":\"Sudan closes all Tearfund offices in the country - 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