Residents receive aid from the World Food Programme in Omdurman on March 11, 2026. EBRAHIM HAMID / AFP
Dozens of civilians have been killed in drone strikes across southern Sudan over the past two days, medical sources told AFP, as some of the heaviest fighting of the nearly three-year war grips the region. Sudan has been riven by conflict since April 2023, when a power struggle between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) plunged the country into a war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
In White Nile state, which lies just east of the southern Kordofan region – an area now hit almost daily by drone attacks – a strike on a village killed 17 civilians on Wednesday, March 11, a medical source at the local hospital told AFP.
In West Kordofan state, at least 40 people died on Tuesday when a pick-up truck carrying mourners to a funeral was hit on the road between the towns of Abu Zabad and El-Fula, a medical source at Abu Zabad Hospital said.
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