{"id":213717,"date":"2025-11-15T21:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-war-continues-us-appears-prepared-to-impose-sanctions-on-rapid-support-forces\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T21:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T19:11:16","slug":"sudan-the-war-continues-us-appears-prepared-to-impose-sanctions-on-rapid-support-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-the-war-continues-us-appears-prepared-to-impose-sanctions-on-rapid-support-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: The War Continues &#8211; US Appears Prepared to Impose Sanctions On Rapid Support Forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"74\">Khartoum \u2014 The Sudanese army announced it had repelled a drone attack on the Merowe Dam and the town of the same name, including its airport. The 19th Infantry Division of the SAF (Sudan Armed Forces) explained in a statement that a swarm of drones launched by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was intercepted in the early hours of November 13. The drones were intended to attack an army headquarters, Merowe airport, and the Merowe Dam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Merowe, one of the most strategically important areas in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140475.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>Khartoum \u2014 The Sudanese army announced it had repelled a drone attack on the Merowe Dam and the town of the same name, including its airport. The 19th Infantry Division of the SAF (Sudan Armed Forces) explained in a statement that a swarm of drones launched by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) was intercepted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":213718,"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":[258,256,11615,5106,5097,9483,257,13315,13717,4650,254,4708,1613,6096,6618],"class_list":["post-213717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appears","tag-continues","tag-forces","tag-impose","tag-news","tag-prepared","tag-rapid","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-support","tag-war"],"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\/213717","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=213717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}