{"id":218148,"date":"2025-12-26T10:50:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfur-rsf-claim-control-of-abu-gamra-um-baru\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:50:52","slug":"sudan-north-darfur-rsf-claim-control-of-abu-gamra-um-baru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfur-rsf-claim-control-of-abu-gamra-um-baru\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: North Darfur &#8211; RSF Claim Control of Abu Gamra, Um Baru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">North Darfur \u2014 <em>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/controversy-erupts-over-rsf-backed-government-in-south-darfur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) Alliance<\/a> claim to have taken control of Abu Gamra (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/MGDxhhnqux5doLPv9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karnoi locality<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/zMUNhgbeUsyziLTAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Um Baru<\/a> areas in North Darfur, following military operations against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Joint Force.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><strong>In a statement on Wednesday seen by Radio Dabanga, the forces say that &#8220;civilians in these areas are not being targeted,&#8221; stressing that their &#8220;primary duty is to protect the population, eliminate the&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512250105.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>North Darfur \u2014 The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) Alliance claim to have taken control of Abu Gamra (Karnoi locality) and Um Baru areas in North Darfur, following military operations against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Joint Force. In a statement on Wednesday seen by Radio Dabanga, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218149,"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":[11554,258,256,53241,8667,6877,2269,53240,257,6732,2830,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-218148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-abu","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baru","tag-claim","tag-control","tag-darfur","tag-gamra","tag-news","tag-north","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/218148","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=218148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}