{"id":224795,"date":"2026-02-23T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-joint-force-repels-rsf-attack-on-sudan-chad-border-as-rival-claims-spark-border-tensions\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T11:06:30","slug":"sudan-joint-force-repels-rsf-attack-on-sudan-chad-border-as-rival-claims-spark-border-tensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-joint-force-repels-rsf-attack-on-sudan-chad-border-as-rival-claims-spark-border-tensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;Joint Force Repels RSF Attack On Sudan-Chad Border&#8217;, As Rival Claims Spark Border Tensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">El Tina \u2014 <em>The Joint Forces, allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), say they have repelled what they describe as a &#8220;treacherous&#8221; attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the El Tina border crossing between Chad and North Darfur, hours after the RSF announced yesterday that it had taken control of the town.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Mutawakkil Ali, deputy spokesperson for the Joint Force, said the RSF had targeted unarmed civilians to impose a new reality through forced displacement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">In a post on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230026.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 Tina \u2014 The Joint Forces, allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), say they have repelled what they describe as a &#8220;treacherous&#8221; attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the El Tina border crossing between Chad and North Darfur, hours after the RSF announced yesterday that it had taken control of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":224796,"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":[258,256,1398,1900,8117,4383,6984,257,4284,8616,2830,254,10911,4708,1613,39758,7182],"class_list":["post-224795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-border","tag-claims","tag-force","tag-joint","tag-news","tag-repels","tag-rival","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spark","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanchad","tag-tensions"],"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\/224795","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=224795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}