{"id":222257,"date":"2026-01-30T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-blue-nile-from-the-margins-to-the-centre-of-sudans-war\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T00:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:06:52","slug":"sudan-blue-nile-from-the-margins-to-the-centre-of-sudans-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-blue-nile-from-the-margins-to-the-centre-of-sudans-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Blue Nile &#8211; From the Margins to the Centre of Sudan&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\">Blue Nile \u2014 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data Project (ACLED) has stated that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) decision to push the battle to the Blue Nile is crucially aimed at reigniting the competition for control of central Sudan &#8211; Khartoum, Sennar, and Gezira. If the RSF seize the Blue Nile, it will open routes towards Sennar, which has been under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since early 2015.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">On Sunday, the RSF and the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement-North&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601290034.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>Blue Nile \u2014 The Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data Project (ACLED) has stated that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) decision to push the battle to the Blue Nile is crucially aimed at reigniting the competition for control of central Sudan &#8211; Khartoum, Sennar, and Gezira. If the RSF seize the Blue Nile, it will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":222258,"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":[258,256,8473,9881,6334,257,4162,254,4708,1613,8105,6618],"class_list":["post-222257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blue","tag-centre","tag-margins","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-war"],"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\/222257","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=222257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}