{"id":14305,"date":"2025-11-07T17:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:44:17","slug":"sudan-capital-hit-by-drone-attacks-a-day-after-rsf-agrees-to-truce-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=14305","title":{"rendered":"Sudan capital hit by drone attacks a day after RSF agrees to truce \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Explosions have been heard near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, a day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it would agree to a humanitarian ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Residents in Khartoum, which is controlled by the army, told the AFP news agency that they were woken overnight by the sound of drones and explosions.<\/p>\n

The blasts appeared to take place near a military base and a power station in the early hours of Friday morning, the residents said.<\/p>\n

The RSF has not addressed these accounts, but Sudan’s military-led government said it would be wary of agreeing to a truce as the group did not “respect” ceasefires.<\/p>\n

The two sides have been embroiled in a civil war that has killed at least 150,000 people and forced 12 million others from their homes since it erupted in April 2023.<\/p>\n

This week a UN-backed global hunger monitor confirmed that famine conditions were spreading in conflict zones.<\/p>\n

On Friday, drones were heard not only in Khartoum, but also 300km (186 miles) north of the city, in the military-controlled town of Atbara.<\/p>\n

“Anti-aircraft defences shot them down, but I saw fires breaking out and heard sounds of explosions in the east of the city,” a resident there told AFP.<\/p>\n

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The day before,\u00a0the RSF announced it had agreed to a humanitarian truce<\/a>\u00a0proposed by the US, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Egypt.<\/p>\n

The four countries put forward the plan in September – and said it should be followed by a permanent ceasefire and a transition to civilian rule.<\/p>\n

At the time the Sudanese government rejected “foreign interference” and any attempts that equated it with a “racist terrorist militia that relies on foreign mercenaries”.<\/p>\n

It is not clear if the proposal has been modified since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Explosions have been heard near the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, a day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it would agree to a humanitarian ceasefire. Residents in Khartoum, which is controlled by the army, told the AFP news agency that they were woken overnight by the sound of drones and explosions. The blasts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":14306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[277],"class_list":["post-14305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-sudan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14307,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14305\/revisions\/14307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}