{"id":225630,"date":"2026-03-01T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-three-years-of-blackouts-in-western-sudan-how-satellite-has-restored-services-the-war-severed\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T23:18:08","slug":"sudan-three-years-of-blackouts-in-western-sudan-how-satellite-has-restored-services-the-war-severed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-three-years-of-blackouts-in-western-sudan-how-satellite-has-restored-services-the-war-severed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Three Years of Blackouts in Western Sudan &#8211; How Satellite Has Restored Services the War Severed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Kampala \u2014 <em><em>Report by Abdelmoneim Madibu of Radio Dabanga for Sudan Media Forum Joint Editorial Room<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"71\"><strong>Adam Osman brought his wife home after she gave birth naturally at the hospital. She was in stable condition, and he left for work. Hours later, her health suddenly deteriorated, and she died. Neighbours and relatives tried to inform him, but the phone connections were down, so they waited until evening. Osman returned, expecting to embrace his wife and child, only to find that the funeral had&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602270011.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>Kampala \u2014 Report by Abdelmoneim Madibu of Radio Dabanga for Sudan Media Forum Joint Editorial Room Adam Osman brought his wife home after she gave birth naturally at the hospital. She was in stable condition, and he left for work. Hours later, her health suddenly deteriorated, and she died. Neighbours and relatives tried to inform [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":225631,"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":[258,256,24754,257,7738,5663,7155,53788,254,4708,1613,6618,12623,5114],"class_list":["post-225630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blackouts","tag-news","tag-restored","tag-satellite","tag-services","tag-severed","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-war","tag-western","tag-years"],"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\/225630","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=225630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}