{"id":206527,"date":"2025-09-08T06:17:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-down-turkish-made-drone-in-south-darfur\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:17:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T04:17:43","slug":"sudan-rsf-down-turkish-made-drone-in-south-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-down-turkish-made-drone-in-south-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;RSF Down Turkish-Made Drone in South Darfur&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Mershing \/ Nyala \/ El Fasher \u2014 <em>Sources claim that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shot down a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) drone over Mershing, South Darfur, this morning after it bombed the nearby Manawashi market, killing at least two people and injuring others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Eyewitnesses told Radio Dabanga that the drone strike killed a woman and an RSF soldier. A market worker and another woman sustained injuries and were rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/north-darfur-rsf-siege-deepens-hospital-strike-kills-dozens-in-south-darfur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSF<\/a> anti-aircraft fire brought down the drone, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509050008.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>Mershing \/ Nyala \/ El Fasher \u2014 Sources claim that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shot down a Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) drone over Mershing, South Darfur, this morning after it bombed the nearby Manawashi market, killing at least two people and injuring others. Eyewitnesses told Radio Dabanga that the drone strike killed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206528,"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":[258,256,2269,23813,257,2830,5069,254,4708,1613,52288],"class_list":["post-206527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-darfur","tag-drone","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-turkishmade"],"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\/206527","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=206527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}