{"id":196161,"date":"2025-04-16T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-paramilitary-chief-declares-rival-government-as-war-enters-third-year\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:20:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:20:43","slug":"sudans-paramilitary-chief-declares-rival-government-as-war-enters-third-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-paramilitary-chief-declares-rival-government-as-war-enters-third-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Paramilitary Chief Declares Rival Government As War Enters Third Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\"><em> Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have announced the formation of a rival government in territories under their control &#8211; a move timed to mark the second anniversary of a war the United Nations describes as the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;On this anniversary, we proudly declare the establishment of the Government of Peace and Unity, a broad coalition that reflects the true face of Sudan,&#8221; RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/timep.org\/2023\/07\/26\/money-is-power-hemedti-and-the-rsfs-paramilitary-industrial-complex-in-sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hemedti<\/a>, said in a statement posted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504160090.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&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have announced the formation of a rival government in territories under their control &#8211; a move timed to mark the second anniversary of a war the United Nations describes as the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis. &#8220;On this anniversary, we proudly declare the establishment of the Government of Peace and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":196162,"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":[258,256,6510,7030,9519,6427,257,21090,8616,254,1613,8105,6618,6537],"class_list":["post-196161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chief","tag-declares","tag-enters","tag-government","tag-news","tag-paramilitary","tag-rival","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-war","tag-year"],"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\/196161","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=196161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}