KHARTOUM: Nine civilians were killed in a drone attack Wednesday, a medical source told AFP, two days after paramilitary leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said he had “unleashed” his Rapid Support Forces.
The latest attack took place in North Kordofan, where the RSF is attempting to encircle the city of El-Obeid ahead of what UN monitors fear will be a bloody large-scale assault.
“Nine civilians were killed and 14 others were injured as a result of a drone strike by the RSF on the village of Al-Jamama in North Kordofan State on Wednesday morning,” the medical source said, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.
On Tuesday, the Emergency Lawyers group, which documents abuses in the war, said RSF fighters had committed “violations against civilians in the Al-Jamama area ... including assaults on civilians and homes, and looting and vandalism targeting the Al-Jamama market.”
Since April 2023, Dagalo’s war against his former ally, army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, has killed more than 200,000 people, aid workers estimate, and plunged Sudan into the world’s largest hunger and displacement crisis.
