{"id":221075,"date":"2026-01-19T23:43:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-explosive-international-events-are-reshaping-priorities-is-sudan-out-of-the-spotlight\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:43:58","slug":"sudan-explosive-international-events-are-reshaping-priorities-is-sudan-out-of-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-explosive-international-events-are-reshaping-priorities-is-sudan-out-of-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Explosive International Events Are Reshaping Priorities&#8230; Is Sudan Out of the Spotlight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">Amsterdam \u2014 <em>&#8220;The events in El Fasher in late October brought the world&#8217;s attention back to what is happening in Sudan, but this attention did not last long. Interest in Sudan peaked at the end of last year but quickly declined at the beginning of this year. This decline is likely to continue unless Sudan experiences a major development or a radical shift in the balance of power or the course of the war.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><strong>In an interview with Radio Dabanga&#8217;s &#8216;<em>Plain Speaking<\/em>&#8216; programme, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/contributors\/ismail-kushkush\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isma&#8217;il Kushkush<\/a>*, a&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601190043.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>Amsterdam \u2014 &#8220;The events in El Fasher in late October brought the world&#8217;s attention back to what is happening in Sudan, but this attention did not last long. Interest in Sudan peaked at the end of last year but quickly declined at the beginning of this year. This decline is likely to continue unless Sudan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221076,"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":[258,256,16390,5393,4337,257,12200,30268,254,5124,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-221075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-events","tag-explosive","tag-international","tag-news","tag-priorities","tag-reshaping","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotlight","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\/221075","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=221075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}