At least 28 civilians killed in Sudan drone strikes
Africa
By
AFP
| Mar 26, 2026
Supporters of the Sudanese armed popular resistance, which backs the army, ride on trucks in Gedaref in eastern Sudan on March 3, 2024 [AFP]
Two drone strikes in Sudan, one at a market in Darfur and the other along a road in Kordofan, killed at least 28 civilians, health workers told AFP Thursday.
The three-year war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has seen a recent uptick in near-daily drone strikes that kill dozens at a time.
On Wednesday, a strike hit a market in North Darfur state's Saraf Omra town, killing "22 people, including an infant, and injuring 17 more", one health worker at the local clinic told AFP.
"The drone hit a parked oil truck, which caught fire along with part of the market," said Hamid Suleiman, a vendor at the market, which serves Saraf Omra and the surrounding towns in the remote Darfur area.
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Some 800 kilometres (500 miles) east of the RSF's strongholds in Darfur, another drone strike set fire to a truck travelling on a North Kordofan road in army territory.
"Six bodies arrived at the hospital yesterday, three of them charred, in addition to 10 wounded," a medical source at the local hospital in El-Rahad told AFP, blaming the RSF for the attack.
The civilians were travelling between the army-controlled towns of El-Rahad and Um Rawaba.
Drones from both sides have repeatedly attacked Sudan's central east-west highway, which runs through North Kordofan state capital El-Obeid and connects Darfur to the army-controlled east.
Sudan's war has killed tens of thousands and left some 11 million displaced, in the world's largest hunger and displacement crisis.