{"id":217550,"date":"2025-12-21T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-civil-war-a-visual-guide-to-the-brutal-conflict\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T08:39:08","slug":"sudans-civil-war-a-visual-guide-to-the-brutal-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-civil-war-a-visual-guide-to-the-brutal-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Civil War &#8211; a Visual Guide to the Brutal Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Sudan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/focus\/sudan-conflict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brutal civil war<\/a> has dragged on for more than 2\u00bd years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrefugees.org\/emergencies\/sudan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">displacing millions<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/dec\/05\/rsf-massacres-sudanese-city-el-fasher-slaughterhouse-satellite-images\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing in excess of 150,000 people<\/a> &#8211; making it among the most deadly conflicts in the world today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">As of December 2025, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces appear to be making gains, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/8\/rsf-claims-seizure-of-key-heglig-oil-field-in-sudan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seizing a key oil field in central Sudan<\/a> and forcing the retreat of the Sudanese Armed Forces in key cities in the country&#8217;s west.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">But fighting has ebbed and flowed throughout the war, with parts of the country changing hands a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190027.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>Sudan&#8217;s brutal civil war has dragged on for more than 2\u00bd years, displacing millions and killing in excess of 150,000 people &#8211; making it among the most deadly conflicts in the world today. As of December 2025, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces appear to be making gains, seizing a key oil field in central Sudan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217551,"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":[258,256,16354,8227,2444,6485,257,254,1613,8105,15629,6618],"class_list":["post-217550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-brutal","tag-civil","tag-conflict","tag-guide","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-visual","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\/217550","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=217550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}