{"id":209652,"date":"2025-10-12T19:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-disturbing-reports-of-sudans-military-using-chlorine-gas\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T17:52:49","slug":"sudan-disturbing-reports-of-sudans-military-using-chlorine-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-disturbing-reports-of-sudans-military-using-chlorine-gas\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Disturbing Reports of Sudan&#8217;s Military Using Chlorine Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><em>Use as a Weapon Prohibited Under International Law<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> government <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy2789\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sanctioned<\/a> General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/africa\/sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan&#8217;s<\/a> de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used chemical weapons, but did not publish any evidence for the claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">But a new investigation by France 24, a French broadcaster, provides the first public elements to corroborate the US allegations, indicating that Sudan&#8217;s military may have used chlorine&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510090097.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>Use as a Weapon Prohibited Under International Law The United States government sanctioned General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Sudan&#8217;s de facto head of state, in January 2025, alleging that the SAF had used chemical weapons, but did not publish any evidence for the claim. But a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":209653,"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\/00520898:9375e3a3704f3a5604bdaee9813416fe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,52559,12228,7168,3318,257,8327,254,4708,1613,8105],"class_list":["post-209652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chlorine","tag-disturbing","tag-gas","tag-military","tag-news","tag-reports","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00520898:9375e3a3704f3a5604bdaee9813416fe:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209652","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=209652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}