{"id":197753,"date":"2025-05-09T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-drone-strikes-escalate-in-port-sudan-evidence-of-chinese-made-munitions\/"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T10:11:59","slug":"sudan-rsf-drone-strikes-escalate-in-port-sudan-evidence-of-chinese-made-munitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-drone-strikes-escalate-in-port-sudan-evidence-of-chinese-made-munitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF Drone Strikes Escalate in Port Sudan &#8211; Evidence of Chinese-Made Munitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">An Ayin investigation suggests the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces used Chinese-manufactured drones in the recent bombardment of Port Sudan, the army-controlled eastern city. The ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has witnessed a series of coordinated aerial attacks targeting strategic infrastructure in Port Sudan for four consecutive days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">These strikes have hit critical sites, including the Port Sudan International Airport, the Flamingo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090088.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>An Ayin investigation suggests the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces used Chinese-manufactured drones in the recent bombardment of Port Sudan, the army-controlled eastern city. The ongoing war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has witnessed a series of coordinated aerial attacks targeting strategic infrastructure in Port Sudan for four consecutive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":197754,"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":[258,256,51313,23813,12380,7013,32779,257,7137,2830,254,3292,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-197753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chinesemade","tag-drone","tag-escalate","tag-evidence","tag-munitions","tag-news","tag-port","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/197753","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=197753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}