{"id":238763,"date":"2026-07-15T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-jactivists-the-hybrid-nature-of-conflict-journalism-in-sudans-silent-war\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:11:01","slug":"africa-jactivists-the-hybrid-nature-of-conflict-journalism-in-sudans-silent-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/africa-jactivists-the-hybrid-nature-of-conflict-journalism-in-sudans-silent-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: J&#8217;activists &#8211; the Hybrid Nature of Conflict Journalism in Sudan&#8217;s &#8216;Silent War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Female activists are filling the reporting gap in Sudan, but this raises concerns about credibility, protection and oversight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Sudan&#8217;s ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, increasingly viewed as a <a href=\"https:\/\/adf-magazine.com\/2025\/08\/sudans-proxy-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proxy<\/a> war driven by competing geopolitical interests, has triggered one of the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">It also highlights a hybrid form of war reporting of what some, lamenting the dearth of international media coverage, see as a &#8216;silent conflict&#8217;. This&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607150506.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>Female activists are filling the reporting gap in Sudan, but this raises concerns about credibility, protection and oversight. Sudan&#8217;s ongoing conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces, increasingly viewed as a proxy war driven by competing geopolitical interests, has triggered one of the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crises. It also highlights a hybrid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,2444,14705,54846,3115,16143,257,7616,254,1613,8105,6618],"class_list":["post-238763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-conflict","tag-hybrid","tag-jactivists","tag-journalism","tag-nature","tag-news","tag-silent","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238763","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=238763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}