Drone Strikes Kill 47 Civilians in Sudan's South Kordofan

In the town of Kalogi in Sudan's South Kordofan state, a series of drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its ally, the Abdelaziz al-Hilou faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, killed at least 47 civilians, most of them children, on Thursday, according to officials from the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Sudan Doctors Network.

The attacks targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities, including a hospital and a government building, in what medical and rights groups described as deliberate strikes on protected sites. The Sudan Doctors Network reported an initial toll of nine deaths, including four children and two women, but updated the figure to around 50 people killed, with 33 of them children, as rescuers recovered more bodies from the rubble. Sudanese Armed Forces sources cited 47 deaths and about 50 injuries, noting that the numbers could rise due to severe wounds and ongoing communication blackouts in the area. A second strike hit paramedics and civilians who had rushed to aid the wounded at the kindergarten, while a third targeted a nearby civilian site, according to Emergency Lawyers, a group monitoring violence against...