{"id":241482,"date":"2026-08-19T08:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-saf-shoots-down-two-rsf-long-range-drones-in-north-kordofan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T08:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:27:52","slug":"sudan-saf-shoots-down-two-rsf-long-range-drones-in-north-kordofan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-saf-shoots-down-two-rsf-long-range-drones-in-north-kordofan\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: &#8216;SAF Shoots Down Two RSF Long-Range Drones in North Kordofan&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">El Obeid \/ Jargeira \/ Bara \/ Jabra El Sheikh \u2014 <em>The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said on Monday that its air defences shot down two long-range drones operated by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over North Kordofan, as the paramilitary group steps up drone attacks across the state.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The SAF said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/saf-accused-of-civilian-killings-as-rsf-drones-strike-three-states\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intercepted an FH-95 drone<\/a> in the Jargeira area before announcing a second interception over Bara, a key town in northern North Kordofan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">In a statement, the army spokesperson said air&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608190083.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 \/ Jargeira \/ Bara \/ Jabra El Sheikh \u2014 The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said on Monday that its air defences shot down two long-range drones operated by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over North Kordofan, as the paramilitary group steps up drone attacks across the state. The SAF said it intercepted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241483,"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":[258,256,9292,7404,55205,257,6732,2830,2045,8095,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-241482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-drones","tag-kordofan","tag-longrange","tag-news","tag-north","tag-rsf","tag-saf","tag-shoots","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"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\/241482","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=241482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}