{"id":248232,"date":"2026-10-26T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-one-year-on-from-the-cataclysm-of-el-fasher\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:00:18","slug":"sudan-one-year-on-from-the-cataclysm-of-el-fasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-one-year-on-from-the-cataclysm-of-el-fasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan &#8211; One Year On From the Cataclysm of El Fasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><em>Takeover of North Darfur&#8217;s Capital Marked by Wanton Abuses <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>&#8220;It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,&#8221;<\/em> said a resident who returned to Sudan&#8217;s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the Rapid Support Forces&#8217; (RSF) October 2025 takeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">For 18 months, the RSF laid siege to the city, digging a trench around it in its final months, forcing starving residents to survive on animal fodder, until even that ran out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">In the siege&#8217;s final weeks, the RSF increasingly used drones to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610260652.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>Takeover of North Darfur&#8217;s Capital Marked by Wanton Abuses &#8220;It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,&#8221; said a resident who returned to Sudan&#8217;s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the Rapid Support Forces&#8217; (RSF) October 2025 takeover. For 18 months, the RSF laid siege to the city, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":248233,"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\/00671790:0dd77129fba4a141ad6ab6b8eac98fd3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,55715,43880,257,254,4708,1613,6537],"class_list":["post-248232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cataclysm","tag-fasher","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-year"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671790:0dd77129fba4a141ad6ab6b8eac98fd3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248232","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=248232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}