Sudan's Army Accused of Drone Strikes That Reportedly Killed More Than 300
Sudan's army has been accused of launching drone strikes that have reportedly killed more than 300 people, among them dozens who were travelling to a funeral. Sources told the Sudan War Observatory that strikes in two areas of West Kordofan state on Sunday evening killed 150 people; the observatory tracks the conflict that erupted in 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
In Abyei, a disputed border area between Sudan and South Sudan, 153 people were killed when drones hit a market on Monday, according to the region's information minister. A military source told the BBC the army had carried out the Abyei attack, saying the market was a fuel supply site for the RSF.
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Provenance is doing a lot of work in these numbers: the 150 deaths in West Kordofan come from sources speaking to a conflict monitor that has tracked the war since 2023, not from a government tally. The claim attaching the army itself to a specific strike, for Abyei, comes from a military source.
Calling a market a fuel supply site is a justification for a target, not an account of who died. The reported dead include dozens of people travelling to a funeral, which that rationale simply doesn't speak to.