{"id":227417,"date":"2026-03-20T01:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-reportedly-seizes-bara-in-north-kordofan-advance\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:57:07","slug":"sudan-rsf-reportedly-seizes-bara-in-north-kordofan-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-reportedly-seizes-bara-in-north-kordofan-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF Reportedly Seizes Bara in North Kordofan Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Bara \/ El Obeid \/ El Tina \/ Kosti \u2014 <em>The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly seized control of the strategic city of Bara in North Kordofan state, just ten days after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured it, marking the paramilitary group&#8217;s third takeover of the city since the war erupted in April 2023.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">RSF soldiers posted videos early in the morning today, purportedly showing their forces inside the city, as the group&#8217;s spokesperson confirmed the advance in a statement,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603170052.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 \/ El Tina \/ Kosti \u2014 The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly seized control of the strategic city of Bara in North Kordofan state, just ten days after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured it, marking the paramilitary group&#8217;s third takeover of the city since the war erupted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":227418,"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\/00680111:bbefda7cef239b173f882336cc311692:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[11688,258,256,53845,7404,257,6732,11273,2830,13889,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-227417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-advance","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bara","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-north","tag-reportedly","tag-rsf","tag-seizes","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680111:bbefda7cef239b173f882336cc311692:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227417","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=227417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}