{"id":198180,"date":"2025-05-16T00:26:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-shifting-frontlines-army-and-rsf-clash-over-strategic-west-kordofan-towns\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T00:26:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T22:26:27","slug":"sudan-shifting-frontlines-army-and-rsf-clash-over-strategic-west-kordofan-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-shifting-frontlines-army-and-rsf-clash-over-strategic-west-kordofan-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Shifting Frontlines &#8211; Army and RSF Clash Over Strategic West Kordofan Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) announced on Sunday that its forces and allied groups had retaken the town of Al-Khuwayyi in West Kordofan, reversing recent gains by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The development comes amid a broader escalation of violence in the Kordofan region, as both sides seek territorial advantage in Sudan&#8217;s grinding civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The RSF had earlier claimed control over Al-Khuwayyi on 3 May, a day after it captured El Nahud&#8211;one of the most significant urban centres&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505150049.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>The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) announced on Sunday that its forces and allied groups had retaken the town of Al-Khuwayyi in West Kordofan, reversing recent gains by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The development comes amid a broader escalation of violence in the Kordofan region, as both sides seek territorial advantage in Sudan&#8217;s grinding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":198181,"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":[258,256,4361,7647,30230,7404,257,2830,21926,254,8007,4708,1613,10364,4375],"class_list":["post-198180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-clash","tag-frontlines","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-shifting","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-towns","tag-west"],"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\/198180","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=198180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}