{"id":241000,"date":"2026-08-13T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-paramilitary-forces-attack-border-town-army-alleges-assault-launched-from-ethiopia\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:16:11","slug":"sudan-paramilitary-forces-attack-border-town-army-alleges-assault-launched-from-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-paramilitary-forces-attack-border-town-army-alleges-assault-launched-from-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Paramilitary Forces Attack Border Town, Army Alleges Assault Launched From Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked the border town of Geissan in Blue Nile State on Tuesday, according to the RSF and local authorities, while a Sudanese army source told AFP that the assault was launched &#8220;from inside Ethiopian territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The fighting triggered a fresh displacement, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/middle-east\/2-500-displaced-by-fighting-in-sudan-s-blue-nile-state-un-refugee-agency\/4024583\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">about 2,500 people fleeing Geissan<\/a>, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The UN agency said its Displacement Tracking Matrix teams estimated that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608120407.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>Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked the border town of Geissan in Blue Nile State on Tuesday, according to the RSF and local authorities, while a Sudanese army source told AFP that the assault was launched &#8220;from inside Ethiopian territory.&#8221; The fighting triggered a fresh displacement, with about 2,500 people fleeing [&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":[258,256,20138,4361,11975,1398,1900,4716,5097,6456,257,21090,254,4708,1613,8636],"class_list":["post-241000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-army","tag-assault","tag-attack","tag-border","tag-ethiopia","tag-forces","tag-launched","tag-news","tag-paramilitary","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241000","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=241000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241000\/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=241000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}