{"id":239675,"date":"2026-07-27T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-in-el-obeid-sudanese-women-face-drones-by-day-rape-by-night-to-reach-water\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T17:40:16","slug":"sudan-in-el-obeid-sudanese-women-face-drones-by-day-rape-by-night-to-reach-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-in-el-obeid-sudanese-women-face-drones-by-day-rape-by-night-to-reach-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: In El Obeid, Sudanese Women Face Drones By Day, Rape By Night, to Reach Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In El Obeid, women and girls now face an impossible choice over something as basic as a bucket of water: risk a drone strike by collecting it in daylight, or risk rape by waiting until dark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Gender equality agency <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unwomen.org\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UN Women<\/a> sounded the alarm this week over what it called a &#8220;dual terror&#8221; gripping the North Kordofan capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">&#8220;In El Obeid, Sudan, drone attacks during the day and sexual violence at night have left no safe window for women and girls to collect water,&#8221; said Anna Mutavati, UN Women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607270011.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>In El Obeid, women and girls now face an impossible choice over something as basic as a bucket of water: risk a drone strike by collecting it in daylight, or risk rape by waiting until dark. Gender equality agency UN Women sounded the alarm this week over what it called a &#8220;dual terror&#8221; gripping the [&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":[258,256,7165,9292,7127,257,7589,13952,305,5160,254,4708,1613,7296,6722,6524],"class_list":["post-239675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-day","tag-drones","tag-face","tag-news","tag-night","tag-obeid","tag-rape","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese","tag-water","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239675","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=239675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239675\/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=239675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}