{"id":245795,"date":"2026-09-27T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-drones-strike-el-gezira-fuel-depot-as-both-sides-report-shootdowns\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T21:30:07","slug":"sudan-rsf-drones-strike-el-gezira-fuel-depot-as-both-sides-report-shootdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-rsf-drones-strike-el-gezira-fuel-depot-as-both-sides-report-shootdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: RSF Drones Strike El Gezira Fuel Depot As Both Sides Report Shootdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Wad Madani \u2014 <em>Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces drones struck the Umm Alila fuel depot east of Wad Madani in El Gezira early on Sunday, triggering fires as Sudan&#8217;s warring sides reported further drone activity across the country.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Residents said they heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/rsf-drone-attack-hits-airport-fuel-depot-in-sudans-northern-state\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">several explosions<\/a> shortly after dawn prayers in Abu Haraz, about 20 kilometres northeast of Wad Madani. Videos circulating online showed flames across parts of the depot as Civil Defence teams worked to contain the blaze.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The facility stores&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609270109.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>Wad Madani \u2014 Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces drones struck the Umm Alila fuel depot east of Wad Madani in El Gezira early on Sunday, triggering fires as Sudan&#8217;s warring sides reported further drone activity across the country. Residents said they heard several explosions shortly after dawn prayers in Abu Haraz, about 20 kilometres northeast of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245796,"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\/00690472:387ff3a4f0c58eeb911cb7e083f140a7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,21453,9292,7570,14207,257,5144,2830,55531,9552,254,2080,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-245795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-depot","tag-drones","tag-fuel","tag-gezira","tag-news","tag-report","tag-rsf","tag-shootdowns","tag-sides","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690472:387ff3a4f0c58eeb911cb7e083f140a7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245795","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=245795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}