{"id":187525,"date":"2024-12-30T02:07:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T00:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-russia-naval-base-talks-still-ongoing-diplomats-say\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T02:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T00:07:21","slug":"sudan-russia-naval-base-talks-still-ongoing-diplomats-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-russia-naval-base-talks-still-ongoing-diplomats-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan-Russia Naval Base Talks Still Ongoing, Diplomats Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Port Sudan \/ Moscow \u2014 <em>The Russian embassy in Khartoum denied &#8216;claims by Western media&#8217; that Sudan has refused to host a Russian naval base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea. Sudan&#8217;s ambassador to Moscow also denied the allegations, adding that Sudanese-Russian ties were &#8220;at their best&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">In a statement seen by <em>Russia Today Arabic<\/em>, the Russian embassy in Sudan described the allegations as &#8220;absolute lies&#8221; and said they lacked factual evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Sudanese ambassador to Moscow, Mohamed Siraj, also dismissed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412280003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port Sudan \/ Moscow \u2014 The Russian embassy in Khartoum denied &#8216;claims by Western media&#8217; that Sudan has refused to host a Russian naval base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea. Sudan&#8217;s ambassador to Moscow also denied the allegations, adding that Sudanese-Russian ties were &#8220;at their best&#8221;. In a statement seen by Russia Today [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":187526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6829,10110,5121,257,9242,254,1613,50292,5038],"class_list":["post-187525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-base","tag-diplomats","tag-naval","tag-news","tag-ongoing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanrussia","tag-talks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}