Sudanese military drone strike kills more than 100 in Nyala market, MSF says one hospital received 36 bodies and treated over 150 wounded
UN calls drones the deadliest threat to civilians in the world's largest humanitarian crisis
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More than 100 people were killed and 113 injured when a Sudanese military drone struck a crowded market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, on Monday evening, according to Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence in Sudan. Médecins Sans Frontières said Nyala Teaching Hospital received 36 bodies and treated more than 150 wounded, among them women and children with shrapnel wounds and severe burns. Some of the wounded were brought to the hospital by tuk-tuk and donkey cart.
Nyala is controlled by the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary movement that has been fighting Sudan's army since April 2023. The toll, also reported by the health minister of the RSF-aligned Tasis government, has not been independently verified, and Emergency Lawyers has called for an independent investigation. Drone attacks by both sides have intensified in recent weeks, hitting hospitals, schools, markets, dams and displacement camps, and the United Nations now describes them as the deadliest threat to civilians in the conflict. A similar strike on Nyala's Al Mawashi market on October 16 killed at least four people.
The strikes reach far beyond the front line. On Tuesday, a drone attack on the Al-Markhiyat transformer station in Omdurman left large parts of Khartoum without electricity for more than 12 hours, forcing hospitals and bakeries onto generators and limiting water supplies. The United Nations calls the war the world's largest humanitarian crisis, with around 34 million people in need of assistance. The conflict monitor ACLED estimates at least 59,000 people have been killed, a figure aid groups believe understates the true toll, and a global food-crisis monitor has warned that worsening food insecurity across Darfur and Kordofan puts the regions at risk of famine.
More than 30 countries have urged the warring parties to remove obstacles to humanitarian assistance.