{"id":241221,"date":"2026-08-16T08:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-says-it-captures-key-sudan-town-near-ethiopian-border-as-army-withdraws\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T06:21:53","slug":"sudan-rsf-says-it-captures-key-sudan-town-near-ethiopian-border-as-army-withdraws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-says-it-captures-key-sudan-town-near-ethiopian-border-as-army-withdraws\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF Says It Captures Key Sudan Town Near Ethiopian Border As Army Withdraws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Addis Abeba \u2014 Sudan&#8217;s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied fighters have advanced into Al Kurmuk, a strategically important town in Blue Nile State bordering Ethiopia, according to reports by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/8\/13\/sudan-army-says-rsf-advance-on-key-town-bordering-ethiopia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Al Jazeera<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/news\/mena\/2026\/08\/13\/sudans-rsf-says-it-captured-key-town-near-ethiopian-and-south-sudan-borders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The National.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Military and <a href=\"https:\/\/addisstandard.com\/rsf-says-it-captures-key-sudan-town-near-ethiopian-border-as-army-withdraws\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> government<\/a> sources told Al Jazeera on Thursday that RSF fighters and the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) entered the town as Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) troops withdrew and repositioned outside Kurmuk. The RSF separately claimed it had inflicted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608140047.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 Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied fighters have advanced into Al Kurmuk, a strategically important town in Blue Nile State bordering Ethiopia, according to reports by Al Jazeera and The National. Military and government sources told Al Jazeera on Thursday that RSF fighters and the Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) entered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,4361,1900,19202,5939,7274,257,2830,254,4708,1613,8636,7626],"class_list":["post-241221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-army","tag-border","tag-captures","tag-ethiopian","tag-key","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-town","tag-withdraws"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241221","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=241221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}