{"id":203868,"date":"2025-08-03T03:42:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-and-saf-both-claim-control-of-key-north-kordofan-town-amid-widespread-displacement\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T03:42:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T01:42:15","slug":"sudan-rsf-and-saf-both-claim-control-of-key-north-kordofan-town-amid-widespread-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-and-saf-both-claim-control-of-key-north-kordofan-town-amid-widespread-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF and SAF Both Claim Control of Key North Kordofan Town Amid Widespread Displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">El Obeid \/ Umm Sumeima \/ Umm Sayala \/ El Halba \u2014 <em>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced that they had seized control of Umm Sumeima, a strategic town west of El Obeid in North Kordofan, repelled a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attack on nearby Umm Sayala, and shot down a suicide drone in the northern axis of Umm Sumeima, yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">Last week, Radio Dabanga reported that the RSF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/yale-hrl-report-corroborates-rsf-massacre-in-north-kordofan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed to have captured<\/a> Umm Sumeima, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/saf-regains-strategic-ground-in-north-kordofan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SAF forces also asserted control<\/a> over the same area. These&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508010012.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>El Obeid \/ Umm Sumeima \/ Umm Sayala \/ El Halba \u2014 The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced that they had seized control of Umm Sumeima, a strategic town west of El Obeid in North Kordofan, repelled a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) attack on nearby Umm Sayala, and shot down a suicide drone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":203869,"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":[258,256,8667,6877,6318,7274,7404,257,6732,2830,2045,254,4708,1613,8636,16713],"class_list":["post-203868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-control","tag-displacement","tag-key","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-north","tag-rsf","tag-saf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-town","tag-widespread"],"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\/203868","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=203868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}