{"id":241855,"date":"2026-08-22T20:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-ground-war-escalates-as-rivals-fight-for-territory-and-legitimacy\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:35:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T18:35:53","slug":"sudans-ground-war-escalates-as-rivals-fight-for-territory-and-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudans-ground-war-escalates-as-rivals-fight-for-territory-and-legitimacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Ground War Escalates As Rivals Fight for Territory and Legitimacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">In Sudan&#8217;s war, ground fighting has intensified on more than one front in the last few days. The fighting led to a shift in the map of control, particularly in the Blue Nile and Kordofan regions. At the same time, the army&#8217;s leadership has initiated steps to facilitate political dialogue in areas under its control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Increased firepower from regional actors and a suspected attempt at political legitimacy, analysts say, are among the motivations behind this surge of violence, with civilians caught in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608220069.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>In Sudan&#8217;s war, ground fighting has intensified on more than one front in the last few days. The fighting led to a shift in the map of control, particularly in the Blue Nile and Kordofan regions. At the same time, the army&#8217;s leadership has initiated steps to facilitate political dialogue in areas under its control. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":241856,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690212:5c476e1fa01e5557c88edeb4b797fbe9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,8580,4345,6914,14058,257,10195,254,1613,8105,5072,6618],"class_list":["post-241855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-escalates","tag-fight","tag-ground","tag-legitimacy","tag-news","tag-rivals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-territory","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690212:5c476e1fa01e5557c88edeb4b797fbe9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241855","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=241855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}