{"id":227267,"date":"2026-03-18T13:53:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-saf-confirms-loss-of-bara-as-fighting-escalates-across-sudan\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:53:50","slug":"sudan-saf-confirms-loss-of-bara-as-fighting-escalates-across-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-saf-confirms-loss-of-bara-as-fighting-escalates-across-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: SAF Confirms Loss of Bara As Fighting Escalates Across Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Bara \/ El Obeid \/ Karnoi \/ El Tina \/ Delling \u2014 <em>The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have confirmed that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have taken control of Bara in North Kordofan, saying their troops withdrew from the city after what they described as a &#8220;heroic battle&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">SAF spokesperson Col Nabeel Abdallah said in a statement earlier today, that commanders ordered the withdrawal based on field assessments. He added that RSF forces suffered heavy losses during the fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The RSF&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180034.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>Bara \/ El Obeid \/ Karnoi \/ El Tina \/ Delling \u2014 The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have confirmed that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have taken control of Bara in North Kordofan, saying their troops withdrew from the city after what they described as a &#8220;heroic battle&#8221;. SAF spokesperson Col Nabeel Abdallah said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":227268,"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":[258,256,53845,6824,8580,4377,9183,257,2045,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-227267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bara","tag-confirms","tag-escalates","tag-fighting","tag-loss","tag-news","tag-saf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/227267","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=227267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}