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Sudan Doctors Network says \u2018deliberate suicide-drone attacks\u2019 targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The death toll from Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on a kindergarten and other sites in the city of Kalogi in South Kordofan state has risen to about 47 people \u2013 mostly children \u2013 with about 50 others injured, two military sources in the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n According to the sources, the RSF attacked the kindergarten on Thursday and then returned to target civilians who had gathered to offer assistance amid the carnage. The city\u2019s hospital and a government building were also bombed.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The sources indicated that this toll is not yet final, due to the serious injuries sustained by some of those who were treated.<\/p>\n On Thursday, the Sudan Doctors Network initially reported that at least nine people were killed, including four children and two women, in \u201cdeliberate suicide-drone attacks carried out in Kalogi town\u201d carried out by the RSF and its ally, the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement\u2013North (al-Hilou), on the kindergarten and several civilian facilities.<\/p>\n \u201cThis attack constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law and is a continuation of the targeting of civilians and vital infrastructure,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the latest instance of RSF atrocities against civilians in the ongoing brutal civil war, now deep into its third year, pitting the SAF against the paramilitary RSF. The SAF has also been accused of committing atrocities in the war.<\/p>\n On Thursday, the United Nations warned that the Kordofan region of Sudan could face another wave of mass atrocities as fierce fighting between rival armed forces threatens a humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n UN human rights chief Volker Turk said that history was \u201crepeating itself\u201d in Kordofan following last month\u2019s fall of el-Fasher, the capital of Sudan\u2019s North Darfur state, where warnings of impending violence were largely ignored by the international community before widespread killings occurred.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is truly shocking to see history repeating itself in Kordofan so soon after the horrific events in el-Fasher,\u201d Turk said, urging global powers to prevent the region from suffering a similar fate.<\/p>\n Since late October, when the paramilitary RSF captured Bara, in North Kordofan state, the UN has documented at least 269 civilian deaths from aerial bombardment, artillery fire and summary killings.<\/p>\n Communication blackouts across the region mean the actual toll is possibly far higher, with reports emerging of revenge attacks, arbitrary detentions, sexual violence and the forced recruitment of children.<\/p>\n The RSF\u00a0claimed\u00a0control of the West Kordofan city of Babnusa earlier this week, with footage showing its fighters moving through the military base there. The army denied that the city had fallen.<\/p>\n Following the fall of el-Fasher, the last major Darfur city under the army and its allies\u2019 control, attention has shifted to Kordofan in central Sudan.<\/p>\n Kordofan\u2019s strategic importance makes it a key territory for both sides. The region sits between RSF-controlled Darfur in the west and government-held territory in the east and north, serving as a vital corridor that links the warring factions\u2019 heartlands.<\/p>\n Control of major cities like el-Obeid would give the RSF a direct route\u00a0towards the capital Khartoum, which government forces recaptured earlier this year.<\/p>\n Before el-Fasher\u00a0fell\u00a0in November, the UN issued urgent warnings about potential atrocities. Those alerts went largely unheeded.<\/p>\n After the city\u2019s capture, mass killings ensued, with corpses visible from satellite imagery, prompting UN chief Antonio Guterres to describe it as a \u201ccrime scene\u201d.<\/p>\n Amnesty International has since\u00a0called\u00a0for war crimes investigations, and the European Union has\u00a0placed sanctions on Abdelrahim Dagalo, the RSF\u2019s deputy and brother of the group\u2019s chief, Mohamed Hamdan \u201cHemedti\u201d Dagalo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sudan Doctors Network says \u2018deliberate suicide-drone attacks\u2019 targeted a kindergarten and several civilian facilities. The death toll from Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on a kindergarten and other sites in the city of Kalogi in South Kordofan state has risen to about 47 people \u2013 mostly children \u2013 with about 50 others injured, two military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle-east-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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