{"id":222437,"date":"2026-01-31T12:09:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-war-eu-sanctions-5-rsf-and-2-saf-members-for-dramatic-escalation-of-violence\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T12:09:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T10:09:51","slug":"sudan-war-eu-sanctions-5-rsf-and-2-saf-members-for-dramatic-escalation-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-war-eu-sanctions-5-rsf-and-2-saf-members-for-dramatic-escalation-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan War &#8211; EU Sanctions 5 RSF and 2 SAF Members for &#8216;Dramatic Escalation of Violence&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Brussels \u2014 <em>The Council of the European Union (EU) today adopted sanctions against seven individuals, in view of the continued grave situation in Sudan, the dramatic escalation of violence causing irreparable costs to human life in Darfur and throughout the country, as well as violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">For almost three years, the conflict in Sudan has caused the loss of thousands of lives and immense hardship for the Sudanese people, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601300010.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>Brussels \u2014 The Council of the European Union (EU) today adopted sanctions against seven individuals, in view of the continued grave situation in Sudan, the dramatic escalation of violence causing irreparable costs to human life in Darfur and throughout the country, as well as violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":222438,"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":[258,256,19640,13045,4326,257,2830,2045,4650,254,4708,1613,2148,6618],"class_list":["post-222437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dramatic","tag-escalation","tag-members","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-saf","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-violence","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\/222437","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=222437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}