Drone Strike Near Courthouse in Central Sudan Kills 13
A medical source said 13 people were killed and 22 injured as drone strikes by Sudan’s RSF intensify in the war with the army.
- On Tuesday, a drone strike blamed on the Rapid Support Forces killed 13 people and injured 22 outside a courthouse in the army-held town of Umm Rawaba.
- Kordofan has become a strategically vital battleground linking army-controlled areas in central Sudan with the western region of Darfur, where the RSF have expanded their presence in recent weeks.
- Witnesses described a "very loud" explosion hitting a tree outside the crowded courthouse, while United Nations figures show drone strikes killed more than 1,100 people this year.
- A United Nations fact-finding mission recently warned that outside support is enhancing military capabilities, prompting calls to expand the arms embargo, with Chairman Mohamad Chande Othman stating civilians require protection.
- Since the war began in April 2023, more than 200,000 people have been killed, with millions displaced in the world's largest hunger crisis, as diplomatic efforts in Sudan continue to flounder.
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At least 12 people were killed and others injured as a result of the targeting of a drone at the judicial building in Um Rwaba City, North Kordofan State.
(Johannesburg=Yonhap News) Correspondent Na Hak-jin = As drone warfare intensifies in Sudan, Africa, where a civil war between government forces and rebels has been ongoing for four years, civilian casualties are...
At least 13 people were killed on Tuesday in an attack in a court in an army-controlled city in North Kordofan in central Sudan, according to a medical source, who attributed it to the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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Drone strike near courthouse in central Sudan kills 13
Drone strike near courthouse in North Kordofan kills 12 - Radio Tamazuj
A drone strike blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 12 people and wounded 20 others outside a courthouse in the army-held town of Umm Rawaba in North Kordofan on Monday, army-aligned authorities and eyewitnesses told Radio Tamazuj. The strike was the latest in an escalating wave of drone attacks by the RSF and Sudanese army, which have been at war since April 2023. The drone struck an area outside the courthouse where…
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