Rebels in Sudan struck that country’s capital using drones, from hundreds of miles away. “A drone strike carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed five civilians in Khartoum,” reports Al Jazeera.
The RSF is based 560 miles away from Sudan’s capital, in the western city of Nyala.
The attack “is the second to take place in the capital within a week. It follows months of relative calm in the city after government forces regained control last year.
“Nearly 700 civilians were killed in drone strikes in the first three months of this year, according to UN figures.”
On April 28, a drone struck a hospital in Jebel Awliya, 25 miles south of Khartoum.
Around 400,000 deaths have occurred in Sudan since its current civil war began on April 15, 2023. More than 11 million have been displaced, giving rise to the worst displacement crisis in the world.
Sudan’s military also uses drones. Fox News reports that “Iran has supplied the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) with drones, specifically the Mohajer-6, manufactured by Qods Aviation Industries, a U.S.-sanctioned entity, since 2013.”
“A State Department spokesperson told Fox News Digital, ‘We are greatly concerned about the proliferation of drone warfare by the parties (in Sudan) and the impact this has on civilians and civilian infrastructure. Recently, we have seen RSF and SAF drones destroy hospitals and schools, killing civilians.'”
“An aid truck from the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) that was carrying emergency shelter kits came under attack by a drone on Friday (April 24) while transiting through the town of Umm Drisaya in North Darfur state. All supplies were destroyed in the fire.”
Over a thousand people have been killed in drone strikes in Haiti.
In February, drones killed dozens of people in towns across the African nation of Sudan. Weeks earlier, drones sent by the Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of people in attacks on El-Obeid, which has around 600,000 people, and surrounding areas. In a village near El-Obeid, a drone killed 65 people at a funeral gathering.
Earlier, “a drone attack” by the RSF “hit a kindergarten in” the town of Kalogli in “south-central Sudan, killing 50 people, including 33 children,” reported the Associated Press. Then it returned to kill paramedics at the scene.
Millions of people in Sudan lost power last year due to drone strikes on a key power plant.
The Rapid Support Forces also have committed genocide against the Masalit people of western Sudan. And they slaughtered tens of thousands of the Zaghawa people after seizing the major city of El Fasher. The RSF also has kidnapped thousands of people and held them for ransom, torturing many of them.
