{"id":242191,"date":"2026-08-25T20:42:03","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-renews-call-for-un-security-council-to-designate-rsf-militia-as-a-terrorist-organization\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T20:42:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:42:03","slug":"sudan-renews-call-for-un-security-council-to-designate-rsf-militia-as-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-renews-call-for-un-security-council-to-designate-rsf-militia-as-a-terrorist-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan Renews Call for UN Security Council to Designate RSF Militia As a Terrorist Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Sudan&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Al-Harith Idris, renewed Sudan&#8217;s call for the UN Security Council to designate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia as a terrorist organization, stressing that the nature of its attacks has fundamentally changed following its military setbacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">In remarks to the Security Council in New York on Monday evening, Idris said that after being driven out of Khartoum in March 2025, losing the strategic road linking Omdurman and El-Obeid&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608250213.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>Sudan&#8217;s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Al-Harith Idris, renewed Sudan&#8217;s call for the UN Security Council to designate the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia as a terrorist organization, stressing that the nature of its attacks has fundamentally changed following its military setbacks. In remarks to the Security Council in New York on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":242192,"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":[258,256,6880,6158,11106,460,257,9218,7307,2830,4586,254,4708,1613,671],"class_list":["post-242191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-council","tag-designate","tag-militia","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-renews","tag-rsf","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-terrorist"],"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\/242191","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=242191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}