{"id":240465,"date":"2026-08-06T07:59:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-army-affiliated-group-detains-journalist-alrayah-isam-gaksa\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T07:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:59:59","slug":"sudan-army-affiliated-group-detains-journalist-alrayah-isam-gaksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-army-affiliated-group-detains-journalist-alrayah-isam-gaksa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Army-Affiliated Group Detains Journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">New York \u2014 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa, a contributor to local news website Hekaiyat and Baankhi Press, who was detained by the Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), while returning from a work assignment in central Sudan&#8217;s Wad Madani.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"104\">According to a statement by the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate (SJS), members of the armed group led by Commander Abu Aqla Keikel, which&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060067.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>New York \u2014 The Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist Alrayah Isam Gaksa, a contributor to local news website Hekaiyat and Baankhi Press, who was detained by the Sudan Shield Forces, an armed group allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), while returning from a work assignment in central [&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":[258,256,55070,55069,11080,55072,5192,55071,7277,257,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-240465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alrayah","tag-armyaffiliated","tag-detains","tag-gaksa","tag-group","tag-isam","tag-journalist","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240465","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=240465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240465\/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=240465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}