{"id":225730,"date":"2026-03-02T01:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-all-of-africa-today-february-26-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:11:15","slug":"africa-all-of-africa-today-february-26-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/africa-all-of-africa-today-february-26-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: All of Africa Today &#8211; February 26, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\"><strong>UN Sanctions Four Paramilitary Leaders Over Sudan Atrocities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"157\">The UN Security Council imposed <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c1789eqz1qro\" rel=\"noopener\">new sanctions<\/a> on four senior leaders of Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces over atrocities committed during the group&#8217;s violent takeover of the western city of el-Fasher. Those sanctioned included deputy commander Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo; Brigadier General Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, widely known as &#8220;the Butcher of el-Fasher&#8221;; RSF deputy commander Gedo Hamdan Ahmed; and field commander Tijani&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602260121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UN Sanctions Four Paramilitary Leaders Over Sudan Atrocities The UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on four senior leaders of Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces over atrocities committed during the group&#8217;s violent takeover of the western city of el-Fasher. Those sanctioned included deputy commander Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo; Brigadier General Al-Fateh Abdullah Idris, widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,5742,724,257,254,6637],"class_list":["post-225730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-february","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660790:31c3b799d93fc32e89804bf0300237d4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225730","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}