{"id":365055,"date":"2026-01-11T21:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365055\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:22:08","slug":"khartoum-sudans-government-return-to-capital-after-nearly-3-years-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/365055\/","title":{"rendered":"Khartoum: Sudan&#8217;s government return to capital after nearly 3 years of war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Sunday, Idris said the government would work on improving electricity, water, healthcare and education in Khartoum. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also declared that 2026 would be a &#8220;year of peace&#8221; for Sudan, where at least 150,000 people have died since the war erupt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UN has described the situation as the world&#8217;s worst humanitarian crisis and around 12 million people have been forced from their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The war began after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-65297714\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the head of the army, General Abdel Fattah-al Burhan fell out with his deputy and RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo<\/a>, leading to a vicious struggle for power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both the RSF and the Sudanese military have been accused of committing atrocities throughout the conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">International efforts to broker peace have failed and both sides are backed by foreign powers who have poured weapons into the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has come under particular scrutiny recently over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cly5p1vkm39o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">allegations of supporting the RSF<\/a>, which it strongly denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, Idris said the government would work on improving electricity, water, healthcare and education in Khartoum. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-365055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}