At least eleven people have died after a drone airstrike on a market in central Sudan, where the escalation of airstrikes raises deaths in one of the planet’s worst humanitarian crises.
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Dozens of people were injured after the bombing, which targeted the Abu Zaeima market, a town in North Kordofan state under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the militia confronting the Sudanese army since 2023. According to the organization Emergency Lawyers, cited by Al-Jazeera, the death toll could increase in the coming hours, although it did not attribute responsibility for the attack. So far, none of the parties involved in the conflict has claimed responsibility.
The war, which has caused tens of thousands of deaths and 13 million displaced people, is now approaching its fourth year
Similarly, another drone struck a gas station hours later in El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, a city that has been under a partial siege by the RSF militia for months. A medical source confirmed that four injured civilians were transferred to a local hospital.
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According to humanitarian sources, about 70 people died last week in two drone attacks recorded in West Kordofan and North Kordofan states, and at least 880 civilians lost their lives in drone attacks in Sudan between January and April of this year.
The normalization of violence in the country and the rise of drones as a war machine are resulting in constant massacres and violations of humanitarian rights in recent months, in a war that is now approaching its fourth year, and which has caused tens of thousands of deaths, in addition to the displacement of nearly 13 million people.
