{"id":238889,"date":"2026-07-17T07:15:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-again-rejects-us-claims-that-army-used-chemical-weapons\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T07:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T05:15:35","slug":"sudan-again-rejects-us-claims-that-army-used-chemical-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-again-rejects-us-claims-that-army-used-chemical-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Again Rejects Us Claims That Army Used Chemical Weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">New York, July 16, 2026 (SUNA) &#8211; Sudan has rejected renewed claims by the United States representative before the UN Security Council regarding the Sudanese Armed Forces&#8217; alleged use of chemical weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"75\">In a statement before the Council, Sudan&#8217;s Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires at the Permanent Mission to the UN, Minister Plenipotentiary Ammar Mohamed Mahmoud, said: &#8220;We would like to point out that the US government has failed to provide any evidence to support this claim, either to our Embassy in Washington&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170043.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>New York, July 16, 2026 (SUNA) &#8211; Sudan has rejected renewed claims by the United States representative before the UN Security Council regarding the Sudanese Armed Forces&#8217; alleged use of chemical weapons. In a statement before the Council, Sudan&#8217;s Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires at the Permanent Mission to the UN, Minister Plenipotentiary Ammar Mohamed Mahmoud, said: &#8220;We [&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":[258,256,4361,6792,8117,257,8440,254,4708,1613,5122],"class_list":["post-238889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-chemical","tag-claims","tag-news","tag-rejects","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238889","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=238889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238889\/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=238889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}