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An aid camp for internally displaced people in South Kordofan (file image) [Getty Images]<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
A drone attack on the town of Kalogi, in Sudan’s South Kordofan region, is said to have hit a kindergarten and killed at least 50 people, including 33 children.<\/p>\n
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the paramilitary group battling the army in Sudan’s civil war, was accused of Thursday’s attack by a medical organisation, the Sudan Doctors’ Network, and the army.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate comment from the RSF.<\/p>\n
The RSF in turn accused the army of hitting a market on Friday in a drone attack in the Darfur region, on a fuel depot at the Adre border crossing with Chad.<\/p>\n
Sudan has been ravaged by war since April 2023 when a power struggle broke out between the RSF and the army, who were formerly allies .<\/p>\n
The reports could not be verified independently.<\/p>\n
According to the army-aligned foreign ministry, the kindergarten was struck twice with missiles from drones.<\/p>\n
Civilians and medics who rushed to the school were also attacked, it added.<\/p>\n
Responding to reports of the attack in Kalogi, a spokesman for the UN children’s agency Unicef said: “Killing children in their school is a horrific violation of children’s rights.”<\/p>\n
“Children should never pay the price of conflict,” Sheldon Yett added.<\/p>\n
The agency, he said, urged “all parties to stop these attacks immediately and allow safe, unhindered access for humanitarian assistance to reach those in desperate need”.<\/p>\n
The RSF accused the army of attacking the Adre crossing because it was used for the “delivery of aid and commercial supplies”.<\/p>\n
According to the Sudan War Monitor, a group of researchers tracking the conflict, the attack caused civilian casualties and significant damage to a market.<\/p>\n
The military did not immediately comment on the reports from Darfur.<\/p>\n
Wedged between Sudan’s capital Khartoum and Darfur, the region made up of North Kordofan, South Kordofan and West Kordofan has been a frontline in the civil war.<\/p>\n
The battle for the Kordofans – which have a population of almost eight million – has intensified as the army pushes towards Darfur.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n