{"id":239742,"date":"2026-07-28T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-saf-claims-gains-on-omdurman-el-obeid-road-as-fighting-continues-in-north-kordofan\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T17:41:32","slug":"sudan-saf-claims-gains-on-omdurman-el-obeid-road-as-fighting-continues-in-north-kordofan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-saf-claims-gains-on-omdurman-el-obeid-road-as-fighting-continues-in-north-kordofan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: SAF Claims Gains On Omdurman-El Obeid Road As Fighting Continues in North Kordofan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">El Obeid \/ Omdurman \/ Umm Garfa \/ Bara \/ Jabra El Sheikh \/ Um Sayala \/ Reihad El Nuba \/ Khartoum \/ Um Dafoug \u2014 <em>The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) say they have tightened their grip on the strategic Omdurman-El Obeid Export Road after capturing the area of Umm Garfa, but local sources have disputed reports that the route has reopened, saying fighting continues along key sections.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a statement on Sunday, the SAF said its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudanese-army-claim-capture-of-strategic-north-kordofan-towns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forces expanded their control<\/a> following what it described as successful&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607280064.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>El Obeid \/ Omdurman \/ Umm Garfa \/ Bara \/ Jabra El Sheikh \/ Um Sayala \/ Reihad El Nuba \/ Khartoum \/ Um Dafoug \u2014 The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) say they have tightened their grip on the strategic Omdurman-El Obeid Export Road after capturing the area of Umm Garfa, but local sources have [&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":[258,256,8117,5106,4377,7219,7404,257,6732,13952,54985,7414,2045,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-239742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claims","tag-continues","tag-fighting","tag-gains","tag-kordofan","tag-news","tag-north","tag-obeid","tag-omdurmanel","tag-road","tag-saf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239742","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=239742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239742\/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=239742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}