{"id":227307,"date":"2026-03-19T01:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-alliances-supply-lines-fuelling-sudan-war\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T01:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:54:56","slug":"sudan-alliances-supply-lines-fuelling-sudan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-alliances-supply-lines-fuelling-sudan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Alliances, Supply Lines Fuelling Sudan War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Sudan is flooded with high-tech weapons, pointing to thriving supply lines from foreign powers feeding both sides of the war: the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Since April 2023, the conflict between the former allies has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The RSF, historically a powerful infantry, has conquered vast landlocked territories in the west and south, relying on supply routes through Sudan&#8217;s neighbours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603180257.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>Sudan is flooded with high-tech weapons, pointing to thriving supply lines from foreign powers feeding both sides of the war: the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Since April 2023, the conflict between the former allies has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions more. The RSF, historically a powerful infantry, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":227308,"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":[258,256,10594,14311,13455,257,254,4708,1613,5236,6618],"class_list":["post-227307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alliances","tag-fuelling","tag-lines","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-supply","tag-war"],"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\/227307","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=227307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}