{"id":195458,"date":"2025-04-05T10:56:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-how-to-defuse-rising-chad-sudan-tensions\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T08:56:45","slug":"sudan-how-to-defuse-rising-chad-sudan-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-how-to-defuse-rising-chad-sudan-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: How to Defuse Rising Chad-Sudan Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>Last week, SAF Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Yasir al-Atta, said Chad&#8217;s airports in Amdjarass and N&#8217;Djamena were legitimate targets for Sudan&#8217;s army.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><em>When civil war started in Sudan in April 2023, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/UN\">United Nations<\/a><\/strong> (UN) warned that the conflict could seep through the country&#8217;s borders and spread. The likelihood of that happening is increasing with the Sudanese Armed Forces&#8217; (SAF) recent threats against its neighbours, Chad and South Sudan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Last week, SAF Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Yasir al-Atta,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040058.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>Last week, SAF Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Yasir al-Atta, said Chad&#8217;s airports in Amdjarass and N&#8217;Djamena were legitimate targets for Sudan&#8217;s army. When civil war started in Sudan in April 2023, the United Nations (UN) warned that the conflict could seep through the country&#8217;s borders and spread. The likelihood of that happening is increasing with the Sudanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195459,"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":[258,256,43073,7809,257,6678,254,4708,1613,7182],"class_list":["post-195458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chadsudan","tag-defuse","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-tensions"],"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\/195458","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=195458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}