GENEVA: At least 90 civilians have been killed and many more injured by drone strikes in Sudan’s conflict-hit Kordofan region over just two weeks, the UN human rights chief reported on Monday.
“In a period of just over two weeks to February 6, based on documentation by my office, some 90 civilians were killed and 142 injured in drone strikes,” Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council.
He said the strikes, carried out by both the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Sudan’s regular army, targeted a World Food Programme convoy, as well as markets, health facilities, and residential neighborhoods in South and North Kordofan.
Sudan has been gripped by a brutal conflict since April 2023, when fighting erupted between the Sudanese army and the RSF.
The war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions, and plunged the country into one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, with aid agencies repeatedly warning of worsening hunger and insecurity.
More than 21 million people – nearly half of Sudan’s population – face high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the United Nations.
The UN last month warned that food aid in Sudan is set to run out by the end of March unless new funding is secured, raising fears for millions caught up in the world’s largest hunger crisis.
The UN earlier declared famine in three displacement camps around El-Fasher as well as in parts of the Nuba Mountains in the country’s south.
