{"id":197330,"date":"2025-05-03T11:58:39","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-paramilitary-shelling-hits-sudans-presidential-palace\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T11:58:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:58:39","slug":"sudan-paramilitary-shelling-hits-sudans-presidential-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-paramilitary-shelling-hits-sudans-presidential-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Paramilitary Shelling Hits Sudan&#8217;s Presidential Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Sudan&#8217;s presidential palace in central Khartoum was shelled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) yesterday, a military source said, the second such attack on the capital in a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The RSF, at war with the army for two years, used &#8220;long-range artillery&#8221; launched from their holdout position in al-Salha, located south of Khartoum&#8217;s twin city of Omdurman, the source told <em>AFP<\/em> on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">There were no immediate reports of casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">On Saturday, the RSF targeted the army&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505020276.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 presidential palace in central Khartoum was shelled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) yesterday, a military source said, the second such attack on the capital in a week. The RSF, at war with the army for two years, used &#8220;long-range artillery&#8221; launched from their holdout position in al-Salha, located south of Khartoum&#8217;s twin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661984:974ed17dddf7f743231e7b713d245656:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7111,257,6814,21090,6438,24529,254,4708,1613,8105],"class_list":["post-197330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hits","tag-news","tag-palace","tag-paramilitary","tag-presidential","tag-shelling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661984:974ed17dddf7f743231e7b713d245656:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197330","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=197330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}