{"id":194946,"date":"2025-03-30T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-battle-for-khartoum-tracking-sudans-war-over-two-years\/"},"modified":"2025-03-30T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T08:42:05","slug":"sudan-the-battle-for-khartoum-tracking-sudans-war-over-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-battle-for-khartoum-tracking-sudans-war-over-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: The Battle for Khartoum &#8211; Tracking Sudan&#8217;s War Over Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Sudan has been engulfed in brutal conflict since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/4\/15\/heavy-gunfire-heard-south-of-sudanese-capital-khartoum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 April 2023<\/a>, when tensions between the country&#8217;s two most powerful military factions erupted into civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The conflict stems from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/5\/18\/the-sudan-crisis-a-power-struggle-by-design\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-standing power struggle<\/a> over military control and integration. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/africa\/sudan-s-military-warns-of-rsf-deployment-in-khartoum-other-cities-67025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">began in the capital, Khartoum<\/a>, and quickly spread across the country. International efforts to broker peace since have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/horn-africa\/sudan\/peace-talks-remain-only-way-out-sudans-nightmare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largely failed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The conflict, which has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280017.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>Sudan has been engulfed in brutal conflict since 15 April 2023, when tensions between the country&#8217;s two most powerful military factions erupted into civil war. The conflict stems from a long-standing power struggle over military control and integration. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began in the capital, Khartoum, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":194947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7887,1616,257,254,4708,1613,8105,5156,6618,5114],"class_list":["post-194946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-khartoum","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-tracking","tag-war","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194946","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=194946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}