{"id":195718,"date":"2025-04-09T11:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-drone-attack-hits-airport-fuel-depot-in-sudans-northern-state\/"},"modified":"2025-04-09T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:05:34","slug":"sudan-rsf-drone-attack-hits-airport-fuel-depot-in-sudans-northern-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-drone-attack-hits-airport-fuel-depot-in-sudans-northern-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF Drone Attack Hits Airport Fuel Depot in Sudan&#8217;s Northern State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Dongola \/ Ed Debba \u2014 <em>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a drone strike on Dongola Airport in Sudan&#8217;s Northern State on Monday, targeting a key fuel depot and triggering a massive explosion visible across the city.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Launched from the south of the airport, the missile reportedly struck a storage facility, igniting fuel stores and forcing airport personnel to evacuate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Columns of smoke billowed into the sky following the blast, which did not result in casualties, according to local&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504090015.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>Dongola \/ Ed Debba \u2014 The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a drone strike on Dongola Airport in Sudan&#8217;s Northern State on Monday, targeting a key fuel depot and triggering a massive explosion visible across the city. Launched from the south of the airport, the missile reportedly struck a storage facility, igniting fuel stores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195719,"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":[258,256,2819,1398,21453,23813,7570,7111,257,4282,2830,254,6017,4708,1613,8105],"class_list":["post-195718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-attack","tag-depot","tag-drone","tag-fuel","tag-hits","tag-news","tag-northern","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-state","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans"],"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\/195718","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=195718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}