{"id":18632,"date":"2023-04-21T03:18:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/sudans-paramilitary-rsf-agrees-2\/"},"modified":"2023-04-21T03:19:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T03:19:12","slug":"sudans-paramilitary-rsf-agrees-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/sudans-paramilitary-rsf-agrees-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary RSF agrees to 72-hour truce on humanitarian grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO (Reuters) &#8211;     Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had agreed to a 72-hour truce on humanitarian grounds, effective from 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) Friday, offering a potential respite from a six-day military conflict with the Sudanese army. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truce coincides with the blessed Eid Al-Fitr (Muslim holiday) &#8230; to open humanitarian corridors to evacuate citizens and give them the opportunity to greet their families,&#8221; the RSF said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The RSF said it had to act in &#8220;self-defense&#8221; to repel what it described as a coup attempt, adding that it is committed to a &#8220;complete ceasefire&#8221; during the armistice period.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate comment from the Sudanese army.<\/p>\n<p>More than 330 people have been killed so far in the violent power struggle which broke out last weekend between two previously allied leaders of Sudan&#8217;s ruling military junta.<\/p>\n<p>The fiercest battles between the army and the RSF have been in and around the capital Khartoum &#8211; one of Africa&#8217;s largest urban areas &#8211; and in Darfur, still scarred by a long conflict that ended three years ago. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Hatem Maher; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Michael Perry)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/sudans-paramilitary-rsf-agrees-2\/smoke-rises-over-buildings-during-clashes-between-the-paramilitary-rapid-5\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K02W-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K02W-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAIRO (Reuters) &#8211; Sudan&#8217;s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said it had agreed to a 72-hour truce on humanitarian grounds, effective from 6 a.m. (0400 GMT) Friday, offering a potential respite from a six-day military conflict with the Sudanese army. &#8220;The truce coincides with the blessed Eid Al-Fitr (Muslim holiday) &#8230; to open humanitarian corridors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-top-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportTopNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3K02W-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18634,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18632\/revisions\/18634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}