{"id":5013,"date":"2014-08-28T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2014-08-28T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-28T11:15:22","slug":"sudanese-army-denies-involvement-in-tribal-clashes-in-east-darfur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudanese-army-denies-involvement-in-tribal-clashes-in-east-darfur\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese army denies involvement in tribal clashes in East Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Khartoum &#8211; The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has denied participation in the ongoing tribal clashes between Rezeigat and Ma\u2019alia tribes in East Darfur state, accusing \u201crebel pockets\u201d of spreading rumors of its involvement in the bloody conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting erupted between the Rizeigat and Maalia tribes in East Darfur last week after the theft of livestock belonging to Ma\u2019alia in Abu Rakubah area leaving 200 dead and hundreds wounded from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>SAF spokesperson, al-Sawarmi Khaled Saad, told the government-sponsored Sudan Media Center (SMC) website on Wednesday that SAF\u2019s victories in all battlefronts were driven by its national creed, accusing rebel groups of inciting and supporting tribal feuds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sudantribune.com\/spip.php?article52191\" 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>Khartoum &#8211; The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has denied participation in the ongoing tribal clashes between Rezeigat and Ma\u2019alia tribes in East Darfur state, accusing \u201crebel pockets\u201d of spreading rumors of its involvement in the bloody conflict. Fighting erupted between the Rizeigat and Maalia tribes in East Darfur last week after the theft of livestock [&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":[784],"tags":[258,256,3786,2627,1616,3785,257,4694,3787,3784,2045,254,4708,1613,2044],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-al-sawarmi-khaled-saad","tag-east-darfur","tag-khartoum","tag-maalia","tag-news","tag-north-africa","tag-rebel-groups","tag-rezeigat","tag-saf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudanese-armed-forces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","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=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/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=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}