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Sudan drone attacks kill 3 children in Khartoum, dozens of civilians in Kordofan
Rights groups said the strikes killed children and dozens more civilians, and called for investigations and accountability under international humanitarian law.
- 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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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…
·Hilversum, Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
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A drone attack on Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, killed three children today, a local human rights group said.
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