{"id":199872,"date":"2025-06-10T01:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-hemedti-rules-out-further-jeddah-talks-vows-escalation\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T01:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:48:32","slug":"sudans-hemedti-rules-out-further-jeddah-talks-vows-escalation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-hemedti-rules-out-further-jeddah-talks-vows-escalation\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s &#8216;Hemedti&#8217; Rules Out Further Jeddah Talks, Vows Escalation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Amsterdam \u2014 <em>Mohamed Hamdan &#8220;Hemedti&#8221; Dagalo, commander of Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has announced his &#8220;categorical refusal&#8221; to participate in any new round of negotiations in the Saudi coastal city Jeddah, vowing to intensify fighting.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/op-ed-will-the-us-saudi-summit-reactivate-the-jeddah-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeddah Platform<\/a> &#8212; initiated on May 6, 2023, less than a month after fighting erupted in mid-April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF &#8212; was coordinated by Saudi Arabia and the United States. The forum has held&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506050054.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>Amsterdam \u2014 Mohamed Hamdan &#8220;Hemedti&#8221; Dagalo, commander of Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has announced his &#8220;categorical refusal&#8221; to participate in any new round of negotiations in the Saudi coastal city Jeddah, vowing to intensify fighting. The Jeddah Platform &#8212; initiated on May 6, 2023, less than a month after fighting erupted in mid-April [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":199873,"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":[258,256,13045,46710,13572,257,10967,254,1613,8105,5038,9639],"class_list":["post-199872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-escalation","tag-hemedti","tag-jeddah","tag-news","tag-rules","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-talks","tag-vows"],"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\/199872","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=199872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}