{"id":232927,"date":"2026-05-11T04:23:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-flights-from-khartoum-airport-suspended-for-the-third-day-following-drone-attack-sudan-pm-visits-site\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T04:23:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T02:23:55","slug":"sudan-un-flights-from-khartoum-airport-suspended-for-the-third-day-following-drone-attack-sudan-pm-visits-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-flights-from-khartoum-airport-suspended-for-the-third-day-following-drone-attack-sudan-pm-visits-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN &#8211; &#8216;Flights From Khartoum Airport Suspended for the Third Day Following Drone Attack&#8217;, Sudan PM Visits Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Khartoum \u2014 <em>The United Nations team in Sudan reported that flights to and from the capital Khartoum remained suspended today, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/drone-strike-on-khartoum-airport-first-in-7-months-aid-ops-not-affected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drones targeted the airport on Monday<\/a> and other parts of the city. Sudan&#8217;s Prime Minister Kamil Idris, accompanied by a number of ministers and officials, inspected Khartoum International Airport yesterday afternoon.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\"><strong>The UN emphasised that the airport is a vital hub for the delivery of humanitarian aid, particularly for the movement of humanitarian workers. It is&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605070006.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>Khartoum \u2014 The United Nations team in Sudan reported that flights to and from the capital Khartoum remained suspended today, after drones targeted the airport on Monday and other parts of the city. Sudan&#8217;s Prime Minister Kamil Idris, accompanied by a number of ministers and officials, inspected Khartoum International Airport yesterday afternoon. The UN emphasised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":232928,"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\/00681351:03dd186a9e91da00131a31d1e083484b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,2819,1398,7165,23813,6969,1616,257,7378,254,4708,1613,4314,7189],"class_list":["post-232927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-attack","tag-day","tag-drone","tag-flights","tag-khartoum","tag-news","tag-site","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-suspended","tag-visits"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681351:03dd186a9e91da00131a31d1e083484b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232927","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=232927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}