Children Killed after Drone Hits Home in Sudan, Medics Say

To date, more than 11 million people have been forced from their homes by the violence, and hundreds of thousands of people have been killed. Widespread sexual violence is also being used as a weapon of war.

Both the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces are accused of atrocities.

Witnesses say Monday’s drone attack on the house in el-Obeid happened in a residential neighbourhood.

The Sudan Doctors’ Network says it “reflects a dangerous escalation of the policy of indiscriminate killing and systematic bombing of safe residential areas”.

The city of el-Obeid remains under army control despite the RSF’s advance elsewhere in the wider state of North Kordofan.

Analysts say it is a key target for the RSF because of its strategic location between Sudan’s capital city, Khartoum, and the Darfur region where they have established a parallel government and are accused of genocide.

The attack comes days after the RSF hit a power plant in el-Obeid and also follows what the army claims was an attempted RSF drone attack on the country’s largest hydro-electric dam near the northern town of Merowe. BBC