At least 20 people killed in Sudan after a suspected drone strike hits a prison
- A suspected drone strike hit the main prison in Obeid, Sudan, on Saturday, killing at least 20 inmates and wounding fifty others.
- The attack occurred amid ongoing civil war triggered by clashes between Sudan's military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that began in April 2023.
- Information Minister Khalid Aleiser accused the Rapid Support Forces of launching the strike, part of their escalation of drone attacks on military-held areas across Sudan.
- The conflict has resulted in more than 24,000 deaths and forced around 13 million people to flee their homes, with the United Nations and human rights organizations documenting widespread abuses such as systematic sexual violence and targeted killings based on ethnicity.
- This strike underscores the persistent violence fueling Sudan's war, suggesting ongoing instability and worsening humanitarian conditions in affected regions.
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Drones drag Sudan war into dangerous new territory
Cairo (AFP) May 8, 2025 Paramilitary drone strikes targeting Sudan's wartime capital have sought to shatter the regular army's sense of security and open a dangerous new chapter in the war, experts say. Since April 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group has been at war with the army, which has lately recaptured some territory and dislodged the paramilitaries from the capital Khartoum. The latter appeared to
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At least 21 people have died and 47 have been injured in central Sudan due to an attack attributed to the paramilitaries Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a prison in the state of North Kordofan. The Sudanese Medical Network has reported on its Facebook page on this attack by the paramilitaries against the prison in Sudan.
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