Paramilitary RSF carried out major drone attack on a kindergarten in Sudan, killing 79 civilians including 43 children.

West Kordofan drone strike: Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces launched a drone attack on a kindergarten in the town of Kalogi in South Kordofan state in south-central Sudan. The country’s Foreign Ministry on Friday accused 79 civilians, including 43 children, of being killed in a “massacre” in Kalogi city. A ministry statement said the attack was “part of the terrorist Rapid Support Forces militia’s ongoing genocidal campaign against Sudanese communities.”

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Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday’s attack killed 79 civilians, including 43 children and six women. “The militia targeted a kindergarten with a rocket launched from a drone with the aim of killing a large number of children,” the ministry said. The statement further said that as people ran to help the injured, RSF “again targeted the kindergarten, killing more people, including children who were not injured in the first attack.”

The ministry said RSF fighters “pursued victims and doctors” at the rural hospital where the injured were taken, bringing the death toll to 79 and 38 injured. The statement further said that the attack was “an act of terror against children and the injured that has never happened before,” and that even “the most brutal radical groups” had not committed anything like it. According to the statement, the attack “provides new evidence that the militias view the international community’s silence as encouragement and sanction for their continued atrocities.”

The ministry further said that “supporters of the militias, the UN Security Council and international actors are responsible for the continuation of these massacres.” She said these incidents show that “there is no way to live with this terrorist militia, which has no respect for basic humanity and any rules or regulations.” There was no comment from the rebel group on the attack.

On Thursday, the South Kordofan state government said eight people, including six children and a teacher, were killed, and several others were wounded when a kindergarten and a hospital were targeted in Kaluki. Weeks of fierce fighting broke out between the army and the RSF in Kordofan’s three states – North, West and South – sending thousands of people fleeing.

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Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF controls all but five of the Darfur region in the west, except for some northern parts of North Darfur which are still under military control. In return, the army controls much of the south, north, east and the remaining 13 states in between, including the capital Khartoum. Thousands of people have been killed and millions left homeless in the conflict that began in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the RSF.