{"id":219620,"date":"2026-01-07T23:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-thirteen-more-lives-lost-in-sudan-as-1000th-day-of-war-looms\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:19:01","slug":"sudan-thirteen-more-lives-lost-in-sudan-as-1000th-day-of-war-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-thirteen-more-lives-lost-in-sudan-as-1000th-day-of-war-looms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Thirteen More Lives Lost in Sudan As 1,000th Day of War Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Thirteen more lives &#8211; including children &#8211; were reportedly lost on Tuesday in another drone attack on Sudan&#8217;s North Kordofan region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">UN Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said the latest fatalities come amid escalating violence, especially across the Kordofans, which continues to put civilians at &#8220;extreme risk&#8221; and drives displacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Rival militaries have been battling for control of Sudan since April 2023, with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia gaining ground in the west and south, while&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070022.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>Thirteen more lives &#8211; including children &#8211; were reportedly lost on Tuesday in another drone attack on Sudan&#8217;s North Kordofan region. UN Spokesperson St\u00e9phane Dujarric said the latest fatalities come amid escalating violence, especially across the Kordofans, which continues to put civilians at &#8220;extreme risk&#8221; and drives displacement. Rival militaries have been battling for control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219621,"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\/00680416:8845ebc23633ed6c6d2911c79bf2fb4a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[53356,258,256,7165,8485,12647,7408,257,254,4708,1613,13083,6618],"class_list":["post-219620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-1000th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-lives","tag-looms","tag-lost","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-thirteen","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680416:8845ebc23633ed6c6d2911c79bf2fb4a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219620","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=219620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}