{"id":25080,"date":"2024-06-14T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=25080"},"modified":"2024-06-14T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T17:21:25","slug":"saf-says-it-has-killed-a-us-sanctioned-rsf-darfur-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/saf-says-it-has-killed-a-us-sanctioned-rsf-darfur-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"SAF Says It Has Killed A US-Sanctioned RSF Darfur Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>Sudan\u2019s army said on Friday it had killed Ali Yagoub Gibril, a senior commander for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who was under US sanctions, during a battle in the besieged north Darfur city of al-Fashir.<br \/>\nThere was no immediate comment from the RSF.<br \/>\nGibril was a leading commander for the RSF in al-Fashir, the last major city in the Darfur region of Sudan that the paramilitary force does not control.<br \/>\nThe army said in a statement Yacoub was killed as an RSF attack was thwarted early on Friday by its troops and allied \u201cjoint forces\u201d fighting alongside it &#8211; a reference to non-Arab former rebel groups from Darfur that are aligned with the army.<br \/>\nThe RSF has been besieging al-Fashir, a city of 1.8 million people, for weeks and top UN officials have warned that the worsening conflict there could trigger widespread intercommunal violence.<br \/>\nThe UN Security Council called on Thursday for a halt to the siege.<br \/>\nWar between the army and the RSF erupted over conditions for a transition to democracy in mid-April last year in the capital Khartoum, soon spreading to other parts of the country.<br \/>\nThe conflict has led to the world\u2019s largest displacement crisis, renewed ethnic violence in Darfur blamed on the RSF and its allies, and a sharp increase in extreme hunger.<br \/>\nSudan\u2019s army said on Friday it had killed Ali Yagoub Gibril, a senior commander for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who was under US sanctions, during a battle in the besieged north Darfur city of al-Fashir.<br \/>\nThe army said in a statement Yacoub was killed as an RSF attack was thwarted early on Friday by its troops and allied \u201cjoint forces\u201d fighting alongside it &#8211; a reference to non-Arab former rebel groups from Darfur that are aligned with the army.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan\u2019s army said on Friday it had killed Ali Yagoub Gibril, a senior commander for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) who was under US sanctions, during a battle in the besieged north Darfur city of al-Fashir. There was no immediate comment from the RSF. Gibril was a leading commander for the RSF in al-Fashir, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":25081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25082,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions\/25082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}