{"id":232158,"date":"2026-05-02T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-airstrikes-ignite-sudans-western-borderlands\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:05:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:05:51","slug":"sudan-airstrikes-ignite-sudans-western-borderlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-airstrikes-ignite-sudans-western-borderlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Airstrikes Ignite Sudan&#8217;s Western Borderlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The tri-border area connecting Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic is no longer teeming with commercial caravans, owing to an escalating military conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, particularly in light of airstrikes targeting RSF-controlled border areas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">From January through April, at least 13 air raids have struck these areas. Recently, the army has intensified its aerial bombardment of frontline areas along the border with Chad, stretching from the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010031.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>The tri-border area connecting Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic is no longer teeming with commercial caravans, owing to an escalating military conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, particularly in light of airstrikes targeting RSF-controlled border areas. From January through April, at least 13 air raids have struck these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":232159,"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":[258,256,16048,47670,14873,257,254,4708,1613,8105,12623],"class_list":["post-232158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airstrikes","tag-borderlands","tag-ignite","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-western"],"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\/232158","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=232158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}