{"id":222037,"date":"2026-01-27T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-burhan-no-peace-until-rsf-is-eliminated-rejecting-political-settlement-as-conflict-enters-third-year\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:00:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T10:00:59","slug":"sudan-burhan-no-peace-until-rsf-is-eliminated-rejecting-political-settlement-as-conflict-enters-third-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-burhan-no-peace-until-rsf-is-eliminated-rejecting-political-settlement-as-conflict-enters-third-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Burhan &#8211; &#8216;No Peace Until RSF Is Eliminated&#8217; &#8211; Rejecting Political Settlement As Conflict Enters Third Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Sudan&#8217;s Sovereignty Council Chairman and Army Commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has stated that the country will not achieve peace until the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are eliminated. He rejected any political settlement that includes the paramilitary group as Sudan&#8217;s war enters its third year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\">Burhan&#8217;s Position on Political Settlement<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Speaking to journalists in Port Sudan, Burhan stated: &#8220;There will be no peace until the RSF is eliminated. Any solution proposal that includes the RSF is nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601270156.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>Sudan&#8217;s Sovereignty Council Chairman and Army Commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has stated that the country will not achieve peace until the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are eliminated. He rejected any political settlement that includes the paramilitary group as Sudan&#8217;s war enters its third year. Burhan&#8217;s Position on Political Settlement Speaking to journalists in Port Sudan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":222038,"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":[258,256,28992,2444,17149,9519,257,6157,6378,23347,2830,9719,254,4708,1613,6537],"class_list":["post-222037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-burhan","tag-conflict","tag-eliminated","tag-enters","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-political","tag-rejecting","tag-rsf","tag-settlement","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-year"],"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\/222037","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=222037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}