Madar (Khartoum) - More than 160 people have been killed since Friday in a wave of drone attacks across Sudan, according to medics and rights groups, as the United Nations on Monday, October 19, 2026, condemned the continuing strikes, Al Jazeera reported.
The deadliest attack hit near a market on Sunday evening in Al-Dibab, a town in West Kordofan state controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Residents and medical workers said a drone struck a transport hub where villagers had gathered after market day to find rides home, killing 80 people. Of 47 wounded people taken to nearby Al-Mujlad, 30 later died, a medical source told AFP.
The RSF's self-declared administration, known as Tasis, and the monitoring group Emergency Lawyers accused the army of carrying out the attack. In Khartoum, drone attacks killed three children on Monday, Emergency Lawyers said, while a strike on Nyala, the RSF stronghold in South Darfur, killed 17 people including seven RSF officers, according to medical and RSF sources.
On Friday, an RSF drone hit a gathering of displaced people in Blue Nile province on the border with Ethiopia, killing 41 people, according to Emergency Lawyers. In eastern Sudan, a military source said air defences intercepted RSF drones targeting the Atbara and Setit dams in Gedaref state. There was no immediate comment from the RSF.
"We are alarmed by the continued deadly drone strikes across the country that are killing civilians, including children, and that are disrupting central services," said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General. The war, which began in April 2023, has killed at least 59,000 people according to conflict monitor ACLED, and the UN says about 13 million have been forced from their homes.
