{"id":248166,"date":"2026-10-26T06:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-african-union-condemns-deadly-drone-strikes-in-sudan-abyei\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:30:09","slug":"sudan-african-union-condemns-deadly-drone-strikes-in-sudan-abyei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-african-union-condemns-deadly-drone-strikes-in-sudan-abyei\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: African Union Condemns Deadly Drone Strikes in Sudan, Abyei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Addis Ababa \u2014 <em>The African Union (AU) has added its voice to a chorus of international condemnation after reported drone attacks kill scores of civilians in West Kordofan, South Darfur, Khartoum, and Abyei. AU Commission chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The African Union has condemned a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-war-many-still-missing-as-abyei-market-drone-strike-toll-rises\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">deadly drone attacks in Sudan<\/a> and the disputed Abyei area, amid reports that more than 250 people have been killed in strikes over several days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">As reported&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610230022.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>Addis Ababa \u2014 The African Union (AU) has added its voice to a chorus of international condemnation after reported drone attacks kill scores of civilians in West Kordofan, South Darfur, Khartoum, and Abyei. AU Commission chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf calls for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. The African Union has condemned a series of deadly drone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":248167,"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":[8397,258,256,4380,7610,9555,23813,257,254,3292,4708,1613,6156],"class_list":["post-248166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-abyei","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-condemns","tag-deadly","tag-drone","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strikes","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-union"],"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\/248166","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=248166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}