Sudan drone attacks kill 3 children in Khartoum, dozens of civilians in Kordofan
Rights groups say the strikes killed civilians and children and demand investigations as more than 160 people were reported dead in recent days.
- A rare drone attack in Khartoum's Imtidad Nasser neighborhood killed three children on Monday, ages two, four, and six, according to Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence against civilians.
- Emergency Lawyers blamed the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for the strike, as both sides in Sudan's war escalate airstrikes across the country.
- Sudanese military drone strikes over the weekend in West Kordofan killed dozens of civilians, hitting a market in Muglad on Saturday and the Al-Dabab area on Sunday.
- The United States urged the Security Council on Friday to push for a humanitarian truce and expand an arms embargo on Sudan, but China and Russia opposed widening the measures.
- Across Sudan, 33.7 million people need urgent aid this year, including 13 million displaced from their homes, while conflict and drought worsen severe acute malnutrition for an estimated 825,000 children.
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The United Nations has expressed its grave concern at reports from various parts of the Sudan on the continuation of deadly drone strikes,
A series of drone attacks on the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, controlled by the army, and two areas in the west of the country under paramilitary control left more than 100 dead since Sunday, according to residents, medical personnel and sources of the Rapid Support Forces (FAR).
According to medical personnel and human rights organizations, more than 160 people have been killed in a wave of drone attacks in Sudan over the past few days. There were also fatalities in the capital, Khartoum. Three children were killed there in a drone attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Khartoum had actually been relatively safe recently, and drone attacks are not frequent there. The city is in the hands of the governme…
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