{"id":48532,"date":"2026-10-20T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48532"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:06:00","slug":"drone-strike-in-disputed-south-sudan-sudan-area-kills-dozen","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/drone-strike-in-disputed-south-sudan-sudan-area-kills-dozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone strike in disputed South Sudan, Sudan area kills dozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>At least 73 people were killed when drones struck a market in the disputed Abyei region along the border of South \u200bSudan and Sudan, the caretaker information minister for the jointly administered region said on \u200cTuesday, accusing Sudan&#8217;s army of carrying out the attack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Mnister did not provide evidence for his claim of who was responsible for Monday&#8217;s attack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Abyei is an oil rich area that is jointly administered by South \u200bSudan and Sudan, which have both staked claims to it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>It experiences frequent \u200bbouts of violence, with clashes usually involving rival ethnic groups or armed \u2060militias.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Around 73 people have been killed and 19 have been wounded, a number of \u200bdrones were shot yesterday by the Sudanese armed forces,&#8221; Yohana Akol Ngor, the Caretaker Minister \u200bof information of the Abyei region, told <i>Reuters<\/i> on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Last year, at least six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed and eight wounded in a drone attack by separatist armed groups on a UN base in Abyei, \u200bBangladesh&#8217;s armed forces said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>South Sudan&#8217;s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Monday that drones \u200bstruck a market located north of Abyei town, but did not specify the number of civilian casualties \u200cresulting \u2060from the attack.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43185,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48532","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Drones struck a market in South \u200bSudan and Sudan","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48534,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48532\/revisions\/48534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}