{"id":221863,"date":"2026-01-25T11:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-drone-attacks-shock-city-in-central-sudan-as-war-inches-closer\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T11:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:56:41","slug":"sudan-drone-attacks-shock-city-in-central-sudan-as-war-inches-closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-drone-attacks-shock-city-in-central-sudan-as-war-inches-closer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Drone Attacks Shock City in Central Sudan As War Inches Closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">El Obeid \u2014 <em>Drone strikes have intensified in and around al-Obeid in central Sudan as the country&#8217;s devastating civil war closes in on the army-controlled city, causing significant civilian deaths in at least two cases, residents say. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The city is one of Sudan&#8217;s most important and the capital of North Kordofan state, part of the wider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reutersconnect.com\/all?search=all:L8N3WO0BR&amp;linkedFromStory=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kordofan region<\/a> that stands between the RSF&#8217;s Darfur stronghold and the army-controlled eastern half of the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">After the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601230055.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>El Obeid \u2014 Drone strikes have intensified in and around al-Obeid in central Sudan as the country&#8217;s devastating civil war closes in on the army-controlled city, causing significant civilian deaths in at least two cases, residents say. The city is one of Sudan&#8217;s most important and the capital of North Kordofan state, part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221864,"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\/00680314:b28c3205f89432baa435aa2cbbcb0f6a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,306,5934,6603,11363,23813,19020,257,7985,254,4708,1613,6618],"class_list":["post-221863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attacks","tag-central","tag-city","tag-closer","tag-drone","tag-inches","tag-news","tag-shock","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680314:b28c3205f89432baa435aa2cbbcb0f6a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221863","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=221863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}