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05-06-2026
KHARTOUM/ CAIRO: Over 70 people were killed in Sudan’s Kordofan region in two recent drone attacks, a rights group and a local leader reported on Sunday.
The Emergency Lawyers, a group that documents abuses in Sudan’s long-running war, said that 10 people, eight children and two women were killed in a drone strike the day before in the village of Kadam in West Kordofan state.
It said “the victims had fled from the Abu Kershola area in South Kordofan to Kadam in search of safety before being targeted at their displacement site” in West Kordofan, which is under the control of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The group did not identify the party responsible for the attack, but said it “occurred in a civilian area where there are no military operations,” adding it reflected an “expansion of violence to include displacement areas.”
In North Kordofan state, a tribal leader told media that 57 people were killed in a drone attack on Friday on the village of Al-Murra, in an area where the army and the RSF are vying for control. The source attributed the attack to the RSF.
On Sunday, the UN’s International Organization for Migration reported that 160 people were displaced from Al-Murra earlier in the week “due to heightened insecurity.”
In recent months, the pace of drone attacks carried out by both parties to the war in Sudan has picked up.
UN humanitarian aid Chief Tom Fletcher had said last month that around 700 civilians were killed in such strikes in the first three months of the year alone.
Now in its fourth year, the war between the army and the RSF has killed 200,000 people by some estimates and displaced over 11 million more, while thrusting several areas into hunger and famine.
A humanitarian organization on Friday accused forces affiliated with a Sudanese paramilitary group of targeting civilians in an area of Sudan free of any military presence during a major Muslim holiday, killing 27 people, among them elderly people. Sudan Doctors Network, a group that tracks violence across the country, blamed forces affiliated with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for carrying out the attacks on Thursday on villages in Al-Murrah area located west of Barah town in North Kordofan.
It said the attacks worsened already “catastrophic humanitarian conditions that citizens are enduring due to the ongoing war.”
A full-scale war erupted in April 2023 after long-simmering tensions between the army and the Rapid Support Forces escalated. The Kordofan region has become one of the conflict’s main epicenters, with fighting intensifying on several fronts, including through drone warfare.
The paramilitary RSF and its allies control the western Darfur region and areas in the Kordofan region along the border with South Sudan both regions rich in oil fields and gold mines. The RSF also repeatedly clashed with the army over Barah.
Thursday’s attacks were carried out during the second day of Eid Al-Adha or “Feast of Sacrifice,” an Islamic holiday celebrated by millions of Muslims around the globe.
The doctors’ network said in its statement that “targeting villages and civilian areas and liquidating citizens in this horrific manner constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.”
Nearly 700 civilians have reportedly been killed in drone strikes in Sudan since January, the United Nations aid chief said Tuesday, decrying that three years of civil war had created the “world’s largest humanitarian crisis”.
Now entering a fourth year, the war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced more than 11 million, and thrust several areas into hunger and famine. (Int’l News Desk)
