{"id":205316,"date":"2025-08-23T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfur-clashes-intensify-as-rsf-and-saf-vie-for-strategic-strongholds\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T15:37:50","slug":"sudan-north-darfur-clashes-intensify-as-rsf-and-saf-vie-for-strategic-strongholds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfur-clashes-intensify-as-rsf-and-saf-vie-for-strategic-strongholds\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: North Darfur Clashes Intensify As RSF and SAF Vie for Strategic Strongholds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">El Fasher \/ Abu Shouk Camp \/ Zamzam Camp \u2014 <em>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced their incursion into El Zayadiya neighbourhood in El Fasher, claiming control of El Najah School just two kilometres from the Sixth Infantry Division. The paramilitary also declared on Sunday that it had seized the headquarters of the Central Reserve Forces (known as Abu Tira) in the city&#8217;s southwest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">In a video released on its official Telegram account, RSF commanders and soldiers boasted that their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210008.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 Fasher \/ Abu Shouk Camp \/ Zamzam Camp \u2014 The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced their incursion into El Zayadiya neighbourhood in El Fasher, claiming control of El Najah School just two kilometres from the Sixth Infantry Division. The paramilitary also declared on Sunday that it had seized the headquarters of the Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205317,"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\/00631463:fadaf48478020dd378a8bb54a03d2008:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,12379,2269,10475,257,6732,2830,2045,254,8007,12415,4708,1613,7254],"class_list":["post-205316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clashes","tag-darfur","tag-intensify","tag-news","tag-north","tag-rsf","tag-saf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategic","tag-strongholds","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-vie"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631463:fadaf48478020dd378a8bb54a03d2008:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205316","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=205316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}