{"id":219972,"date":"2026-01-10T23:25:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-claims-drone-shot-down-over-south-darfur-capital-as-fighting-continues-in-south-kordofan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T23:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T21:25:12","slug":"sudan-rsf-claims-drone-shot-down-over-south-darfur-capital-as-fighting-continues-in-south-kordofan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-claims-drone-shot-down-over-south-darfur-capital-as-fighting-continues-in-south-kordofan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF Claims Drone Shot Down Over South Darfur Capital As Fighting Continues in South Kordofan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\"><em>The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they downed a SAF drone over Nyala on Thursday, as clashes continue in South Kordofan and humanitarian conditions deteriorate in Kadugli and Delling. Thousands of Sudanese refugees in Uganda have registered for a voluntary return programme amid mounting difficulties.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Thursday evening they shot down an Akinci drone over Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In posts on its Telegram channel and affiliated platforms, the RSF&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100081.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>The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they downed a SAF drone over Nyala on Thursday, as clashes continue in South Kordofan and humanitarian conditions deteriorate in Kadugli and Delling. Thousands of Sudanese refugees in Uganda have registered for a voluntary return programme amid mounting difficulties. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Thursday evening they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219973,"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":[258,256,6959,8117,5106,2269,23813,4377,7404,257,2830,5352,5069,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-219972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-claims","tag-continues","tag-darfur","tag-drone","tag-fighting","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-shot","tag-south","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\/219972","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=219972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}