{"id":227155,"date":"2026-03-17T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-world-news-in-brief-deadly-drone-strikes-in-sudan-families-killed-in-west-bank-ukraine-casualties-update\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:51:15","slug":"sudan-world-news-in-brief-deadly-drone-strikes-in-sudan-families-killed-in-west-bank-ukraine-casualties-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-world-news-in-brief-deadly-drone-strikes-in-sudan-families-killed-in-west-bank-ukraine-casualties-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: World News in Brief &#8211; Deadly Drone Strikes in Sudan, Families Killed in West Bank, Ukraine Casualties Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Relentless drone strikes across Sudan&#8217;s Kordofan and Darfur regions are causing civilian casualties and further restricting humanitarian access, the UN warned on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Two people were reportedly killed in a strike on the town of Al Rahad, southeast of El Obeid in North Kordofan, where a hospital was also destroyed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Additional casualties were reported two days earlier when drone strikes hit Al Fula, the capital of West Kordofan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Across Darfur, strikes between Thursday and Saturday caused further&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603170057.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>Relentless drone strikes across Sudan&#8217;s Kordofan and Darfur regions are causing civilian casualties and further restricting humanitarian access, the UN warned on Monday. Two people were reportedly killed in a strike on the town of Al Rahad, southeast of El Obeid in North Kordofan, where a hospital was also destroyed. Additional casualties were reported two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":227156,"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\/00680751:51635cc5296b3815a677213e6fe68307:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,7089,20630,9555,23813,9255,4327,257,254,3292,4708,1613,16551,6320,4375,5093],"class_list":["post-227155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bank","tag-casualties","tag-deadly","tag-drone","tag-families","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-ukraine","tag-update","tag-west","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680751:51635cc5296b3815a677213e6fe68307:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227155","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=227155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}