A Sudanese army drone strike killed several people on Thursday after targeting a gathering of displaced people in the southern Badia area of Blue Nile State, according to Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese legal rights group. Preliminary information indicates dozens of people were killed or injured, most of them women and children.
Blue Nile has faced months of clashes between the Sudanese army and an alliance of the RSF and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu, triggering widespread displacement toward the city of Ed Damazin.
The rights group said those killed in Thursday’s strike were among civilians who had fled earlier clashes between the army and the RSF in Sinnar state, and who were already without adequate shelter, grazing land, or livelihoods amid a severe shortage of humanitarian relief.
The attack came just days after a visit by Saleh Issa, a member of the Presidential Council, to sites housing people displaced from Sinnar to Blue Nile.
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