{"id":224451,"date":"2026-02-20T00:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-ramadan-begins-with-bloodshed-drone-strike-kills-26-civilians-including-15-children-at-water-well-in-west-kordofan\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T00:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:57:30","slug":"sudan-ramadan-begins-with-bloodshed-drone-strike-kills-26-civilians-including-15-children-at-water-well-in-west-kordofan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-ramadan-begins-with-bloodshed-drone-strike-kills-26-civilians-including-15-children-at-water-well-in-west-kordofan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Ramadan Begins With Bloodshed &#8211; Drone Strike Kills 26 Civilians, Including 15 Children, At Water Well in West Kordofan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">On the first day of Ramadan, the village of Um Rasuma in West Kordofan State became the site of a devastating drone strike that killed 26 civilians, including 15 children, and wounded 14 others. The attack targeted residents gathering at the village&#8217;s main water source to secure drinking water for their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">The strike occurred at approximately 1:00 PM, a time when families traditionally gather to collect water during the afternoon hours. What should have been a routine task securing basic&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602190460.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>On the first day of Ramadan, the village of Um Rasuma in West Kordofan State became the site of a devastating drone strike that killed 26 civilians, including 15 children, and wounded 14 others. The attack targeted residents gathering at the village&#8217;s main water source to secure drinking water for their families. The strike occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224452,"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":[258,256,8082,14800,7371,13304,23813,10381,7500,7404,257,1907,254,2080,4708,1613,6722,4375],"class_list":["post-224451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-begins","tag-bloodshed","tag-children","tag-civilians","tag-drone","tag-including","tag-kills","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-ramadan","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-water","tag-west"],"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\/224451","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=224451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}