{"id":239041,"date":"2026-07-19T07:20:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-g7-and-eu-call-for-halt-to-attacks-in-sudans-el-obeid-and-wider-arms-embargo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T05:20:18","slug":"sudan-g7-and-eu-call-for-halt-to-attacks-in-sudans-el-obeid-and-wider-arms-embargo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-g7-and-eu-call-for-halt-to-attacks-in-sudans-el-obeid-and-wider-arms-embargo\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: G7 and EU Call for Halt to Attacks in Sudan&#8217;s El-Obeid and Wider Arms Embargo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><em> G7 foreign ministers and the European Union&#8217;s foreign policy chief on Wednesday urged Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups to halt all actions that could lead to further atrocities or endanger civilians in El-Obeid. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">&#8220;We, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/g7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">G7<\/a> foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, and the High Representative of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/tag\/european-union\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European Union<\/a>, urge the Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups to immediately cease any action&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170219.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>G7 foreign ministers and the European Union&#8217;s foreign policy chief on Wednesday urged Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups to halt all actions that could lead to further atrocities or endanger civilians in El-Obeid. &#8220;We, the G7 foreign ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of [&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":[258,256,7008,306,6880,54877,16054,7520,257,254,4708,1613,8105,20564],"class_list":["post-239041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arms","tag-attacks","tag-call","tag-elobeid","tag-embargo","tag-halt","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-wider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239041","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=239041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239041\/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=239041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}