{"id":4140,"date":"2014-07-16T15:59:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2014-07-16T15:59:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T08:59:55","slug":"fresh-fighting-in-south-sudans-unity-state-sparks-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/fresh-fighting-in-south-sudans-unity-state-sparks-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh fighting in South Sudan\u2019s Unity state sparks panic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kampala &#8211; Heavy fighting between rebels and government forces on Tuesday sparked widespread panic among civilians in South Sudan\u2019s Unity state.<\/p>\n<p>The rebels have accused the government with launching attacks on their positions in Kuergueyni, Guit, Nhialdiu and Wichok.<\/p>\n<p>The latest claims come amid renewed fighting in the state which erupted over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Rebel spokesman Peter Riak Gew told Sudan Tribune by satellite phone interview that rebels had repulsed three separate attacks launched by government forces on Tuesday and were pursuing them towards the capital, Bentiu&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article51702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kampala &#8211; Heavy fighting between rebels and government forces on Tuesday sparked widespread panic among civilians in South Sudan\u2019s Unity state. The rebels have accused the government with launching attacks on their positions in Kuergueyni, Guit, Nhialdiu and Wichok. The latest claims come amid renewed fighting in the state which erupted over the weekend. Rebel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,257,4694,254,4708,1613],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}