{"id":245407,"date":"2026-09-24T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-while-washington-calls-for-an-arms-embargo-sudans-arms-market-increases\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T08:30:25","slug":"sudan-while-washington-calls-for-an-arms-embargo-sudans-arms-market-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-while-washington-calls-for-an-arms-embargo-sudans-arms-market-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: While Washington Calls for an Arms Embargo, Sudan&#8217;s Arms Market Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">As Washington pushes for a nationwide arms embargo, Sudan&#8217;s warring parties continue to acquire increasingly sophisticated military technology, including drones and air-defence systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">While the United States is working at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to expand the existing arms embargo to cover the whole of Sudan, the country&#8217;s warring parties continue to acquire increasingly sophisticated military technology, including armed drones, surveillance platforms, loitering munitions and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609240013.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>As Washington pushes for a nationwide arms embargo, Sudan&#8217;s warring parties continue to acquire increasingly sophisticated military technology, including drones and air-defence systems. While the United States is working at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to expand the existing arms embargo to cover the whole of Sudan, the country&#8217;s warring parties continue to acquire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245408,"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":[258,256,7008,6137,16054,10448,4356,257,254,4708,1613,8105,4565],"class_list":["post-245407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arms","tag-calls","tag-embargo","tag-increases","tag-market","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-washington"],"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\/245407","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=245407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}