{"id":219916,"date":"2026-01-10T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-after-three-years-of-war-bleak-scenarios-as-crisis-deepens\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:24:10","slug":"sudan-after-three-years-of-war-bleak-scenarios-as-crisis-deepens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-after-three-years-of-war-bleak-scenarios-as-crisis-deepens\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan After Three Years of War &#8211; &#8216;Bleak Scenarios As Crisis Deepens&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">Kampala \u2014 <strong>As Sudan&#8217;s war nears its fourth year, the country faces a more dangerous phase, with no prospect of military victory or political settlement. Fighting has entrenched in Kordofan, while millions endure hunger, displacement, and collapsing services. Political and humanitarian analyst Ahmed Kadwa warned that Sudan stands at &#8220;a real and dangerous crossroads&#8221;, as the war increasingly focuses on consolidating areas of influence rather than achieving decisive victory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Speaking to Radio&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100082.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>Kampala \u2014 As Sudan&#8217;s war nears its fourth year, the country faces a more dangerous phase, with no prospect of military victory or political settlement. Fighting has entrenched in Kordofan, while millions endure hunger, displacement, and collapsing services. Political and humanitarian analyst Ahmed Kadwa warned that Sudan stands at &#8220;a real and dangerous crossroads&#8221;, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219917,"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":[258,256,24533,3723,9626,257,36083,254,4708,1613,6618,5114],"class_list":["post-219916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bleak","tag-crisis","tag-deepens","tag-news","tag-scenarios","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war","tag-years"],"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\/219916","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=219916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}