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Drone Strikes on Sudan Kindergarten and Hospital Kill Dozens, Local Official Says
The Rapid Support Forces and allied SPLM-N faction are blamed for drone strikes killing 79, including 43 children, amid ongoing conflict since April 2023, officials said.
- On Dec 6, a paramilitary drone attack struck the army-held town of Kalogi, South Kordofan state, hitting a kindergarten and a hospital and killing dozens of civilians including children, Essam al-Din al-Sayed told AFP on Dec 7 via Starlink.
- After capturing El-Fasher, North Darfur, the Rapid Support Forces pushed east into the Kordofan region aiming to break the Sudanese regular army's final defensive arc since the April 2023 conflict has killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 12 million.
- Witnesses described the first strike on a kindergarten, a second on a hospital and a third that struck rescuers; the UN children's agency reported over 10 children killed while the army-aligned foreign ministry put deaths at 79 including 43 children.
- More than 40,000 people have fled the region in the past month, deepening the humanitarian crisis, and UN human rights chief Volker Turk said `There is no sign of de-escalation`.
- Independent verification is hampered by spotty communications and restricted access, and analysts say the RSF offensive aims to retake major cities including Khartoum.
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At least 79 people, including 43 children, were killed in drone strikes attributed to paramilitaries at a school and hospital in Sudan.
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For more than two and a half years now, a relentless civil war has raged in Sudan between the state army and the paramilitary RSF militia. ... The post drone attack by Islamist militia on kindergarten and hospital: 43 children die appeared first on Apollo News.
The shooting took place on Thursday in the town of Kalogi, controlled by the army and located in the Kordofan region, at the heart of the fighting between the Sudanese belligerents.
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The civil war between the Sudanese army and RSF forces broke out in April 2023.
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