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  1. April 2026
  2. New Era

    In recent months, near-daily drone strikes have disrupted life across Sudan, particularly in the southern Kordofan region, now the war’s main battleground, and in RSF-controlled areas of the west, including Darfur.

    Nearly 700 killed in Sudan drone strikes this year: UN
  3. The Namibian

    It soon spread to other parts of the country and has been particularly vicious in the western region of Darfur, the RSF stronghold, where el-Fasher is located.

    Three years of messages at once – a chronicle of Sudan's war pours in as trapped reporter's phone turns on
  4. New Era

    NAIROBI – Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias are using sexual violence as a “weapon of war” in Darfur to control civilians, medical charity Doctors Without Borders said yesterday.

    RSF using sexual violence in Darfur as ‘war weapon’: MSF
  5. March 2026
  6. The Namibian

    But MSF says rape persists as an “insidious” part of life for communities in the western region of Darfur that are no longer on the front line.

    Sexual violence part of ‘everyday life' in parts of Sudan, charity says
  7. The Namibian

    The takeover of the city in the western Darfur region was a major victory for the RSF.

    The devastating conflict where both sides have reasons to keep fighting
  8. February 2026
  9. The Namibian

    Greater Kordofan comprises three states and serves as a vital axis linking the western Darfur region, controlled by the RSF, to the capital, Khartoum, in the eastern Nile Valley, now in army hands.

    Drones hammer Sudan's gold and oil zone – the pivotal new front line
  10. New Era

    The RSF has been trying to re-encircle El-Obeid since, including by launching successive drone strikes on the main highway out of the city, which connects the western region of Darfur with the capital Khartoum.

    Sudan paramilitary drone strike on school kills two children
  11. December 2025
  12. The Namibian

    Taking over el-Fasher was a major victory for the paramilitary group, pushing the army out of its last foothold in Darfur.

    ‘I saw them driving over injured people' – the terrifying escape from war in Sudan
  13. November 2025
  14. The Namibian

    FIGHTING AND MILITARY CONTROL The RSF has been killing civilians and solidifying its control over the West Darfur state after taking over el-Fasher, the last remaining army stronghold in the region, in late October.

    War in Sudan: Humanitarian, fighting and control developments
  15. The Namibian

    The thousands who fled the RSF-led mass killings in and around el-Fasher in western Sudan’s Darfur to arrive in Chad over the past few weeks only add to the more than one million people who have entered the country since the start of the Sudanese war.

    Waves of Sudanese families flee expanding war, arrive in impoverished Chad
World & Region

Sudan drone strikes kill nearly 700 in early 2024

The News

The UN aid chief reported that nearly 700 civilians were killed in drone strikes in Sudan in the first three months of 2024, as the three-year civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces has created what the UN calls the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with over 11 million displaced and nearly 34 million people requiring humanitarian support.

15 April 2026 · New Era

Wednesday 15 April

  1. Sudan drone strikes kill nearly 700 in early 2024

    The UN aid chief reported that nearly 700 civilians were killed in drone strikes in Sudan in the first three months of 2024, as the three-year civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces has created what the UN calls the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with over 11 million displaced and nearly 34 million people requiring humanitarian support.

    15 April 2026 · New Era

  2. Trapped Sudanese journalist breaks silence after three years in besieged city

    Mohamed Suleiman, a journalist trapped in Sudan's el-Fasher for three years by a communications blackout during the civil war, finally reached Port Sudan in January and reconnected with the world. His account documents systematic killings, famine conditions, and the inability of the international community to stop the fighting or provide adequate humanitarian aid.

    15 April 2026 · The Namibian

Wednesday 1 April

  1. RSF using sexual violence as systematic weapon in Darfur

    Doctors Without Borders reports that Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias are systematically using sexual violence against civilians in Darfur as a means of control and war weapon. Between January 2024 and November 2025, MSF facilities treated at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence, 97% of them women and girls, though the organisation warns this figure represents only a fraction of the true scale of atrocities.

    1 April 2026 · New Era

Tuesday 31 March

  1. Sexual violence remains endemic in Sudan's Darfur, MSF report finds

    A new Médecins Sans Frontières report based on 3,396 victims treated across Darfur documents rape and sexual assault as a persistent and defining feature of Sudan's civil war, with non-Arab communities systematically targeted and attacks continuing even in areas away from active conflict.

    31 March 2026 · The Namibian

Thursday 5 March

  1. Sudan's civil war persists despite international peace efforts

    Almost three years into Sudan's conflict between the military-led government and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a recent commercial flight to Khartoum signals potential normalcy, but the underlying causes of the war remain unresolved. Both sides view the conflict as existential, foreign powers continue supplying weapons, and analysts warn that without comprehensive mediation addressing root causes—including demilitarisation, constitutional reform, and accountability for war crimes—the conflict could drag on for decades and potentially splinter the nation.

    5 March 2026 · The Namibian

Wednesday 25 February

  1. Drone strikes escalate in Sudan's Kordofan conflict zone

    Sudan's civil war has intensified in the gold and oil-rich Kordofan region, with near-daily drone attacks killing civilians and shaping the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Both sides are accused of strikes on civilian infrastructure, and the fighting threatens to widen into a regional conflict as fighting spreads to the Blue Nile region.

    25 February 2026 · The Namibian

Thursday 12 February

  1. Sudan paramilitary drone strike kills two children at school

    A drone strike blamed on Sudan's Rapid Support Forces killed two children and injured 12 others at a traditional Koranic school in El-Rahad, in the Kordofan region, which has become the fiercest battlefield in the ongoing civil war between the RSF and the regular army since April 2023.

    12 February 2026 · New Era

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