{"id":237835,"date":"2026-06-30T18:24:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-army-and-allied-forces-claim-gains-in-blue-nile-and-darfur\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T18:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T16:24:56","slug":"sudan-army-and-allied-forces-claim-gains-in-blue-nile-and-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-army-and-allied-forces-claim-gains-in-blue-nile-and-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Army and Allied Forces Claim Gains in Blue Nile and Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><em>The Joint Force, aligned with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), announced on Monday that it had captured the strategic Chadian border town of Kolbus locality in West Darfur state after clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), while the SAF claimed fresh territorial gains in Blue Nile state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Videos published by Joint Force officers and soldiers showed fighters inside Kolbus locality, about 160 kilometres north of El Geneina on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/joint-force-repels-rsf-attack-on-sudan-chad-border-as-rival-claims-spark-border-tensions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">border with Chad<\/a>, declaring that they had taken&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606300433.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 Joint Force, aligned with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), announced on Monday that it had captured the strategic Chadian border town of Kolbus locality in West Darfur state after clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), while the SAF claimed fresh territorial gains in Blue Nile state. Videos published by Joint Force officers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237836,"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":[258,256,43364,4361,8473,8667,2269,5097,7219,257,4162,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-237835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allied","tag-army","tag-blue","tag-claim","tag-darfur","tag-forces","tag-gains","tag-news","tag-nile","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\/237835","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=237835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}