{"id":241526,"date":"2026-08-19T20:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-battlefield-shifts-as-rsf-intensifies-operations-in-blue-nile\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:28:25","slug":"sudan-battlefield-shifts-as-rsf-intensifies-operations-in-blue-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-battlefield-shifts-as-rsf-intensifies-operations-in-blue-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Battlefield Shifts As RSF Intensifies Operations in Blue Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">El Kurmuk \/ Geisan \/ Assosa \/ Wad Madani \/ Sennar \u2014 <em>Sudan&#8217;s battlefield is undergoing rapid shifts across several fronts, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifying military operations in Blue Nile state, according to security and military expert Brig Gen Dr Jamal El Shahid.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">El Shahid told Radio Dabanga that the RSF and Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), reportedly led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/rsf-and-splm-n-seize-parts-of-sudans-blue-nile-region-as-more-than-73000-flee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Toka<\/a>, have stepped up attacks against Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) positions in Blue&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608190084.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 Kurmuk \/ Geisan \/ Assosa \/ Wad Madani \/ Sennar \u2014 Sudan&#8217;s battlefield is undergoing rapid shifts across several fronts, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifying military operations in Blue Nile state, according to security and military expert Brig Gen Dr Jamal El Shahid. El Shahid told Radio Dabanga that the RSF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241527,"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":[258,256,11645,8473,8013,257,4162,6345,2830,5758,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-241526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battlefield","tag-blue","tag-intensifies","tag-news","tag-nile","tag-operations","tag-rsf","tag-shifts","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\/241526","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=241526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}