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A drone strike blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed two children and wounded 12 others on Wednesday in the southern Kordofan city of El-Rahad, a medical source said.
An eyewitness told AFP that the strike hit a traditional Koranic school, saying, “I saw a dozen students injured.”
The Sudan Doctors Network, which monitors the ongoing conflict in the country, said the attack happened near the city of Rahad in the province of North Kordofan. According to a statement from the group, the car was carrying displaced people who had fled fighting in the Dubeiker area.
The Kordofan region has become one of the main battlegrounds in the war between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, which began in April 2023.
El-Rahad lies along a strategic route linking El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state, to the White Nile River, a key supply line to Khartoum.
The army retook the city in February as part of an offensive that pushed westward and broke a prolonged siege on El-Obeid.
Since then, the RSF has sought to re-encircle El-Obeid, including through repeated drone strikes on the eastern highway connecting the Darfur region to the rest of the country.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced around 11 million, creating what aid agencies describe as the world’s largest hunger and displacement crisis.
The fighting has effectively split Sudan, with the army controlling the north, centre and east, and the RSF holding most of the west and parts of the south.
In recent days, the army has regained ground in South Kordofan, breaking RSF sieges on the cities of Dilling and Kadugli. Both cities have faced sustained violence and reported food shortages amid ongoing drone attacks.
Between late October and February, more than 115,000 people were displaced in the region, according to data released Tuesday by the International Organisation for Migration.
The UN human rights chief, Volker Turk, said this week that about 90 civilians were killed and 142 were injured in drone strikes over a period of just over two weeks.
Turk said strikes by both sides had hit markets, residential areas, health facilities and a convoy operated by the World Food Programme.
The World Health Organisation reported that three health facilities were attacked in South Kordofan during the first week of February, leaving 30 people dead.
