The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Tuesday that five children were killed over the weekend in a city in South Kordofan State, one of the most intense frontlines of fighting between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The agency wrote on the platform “X” that “five children were killed and three others were injured in Al-Dilling over the weekend.”
Last Saturday, the army said in a statement that it had repelled a third wave of attacks launched by the RSF in the morning on the city, inflicting “heavy human and material losses” on their forces.
Local media reported that drone strikes carried out by the RSF on Al-Dilling resulted in 10 deaths, including women and children, in addition to dozens of injuries.
It remains difficult—if not impossible—to independently verify the casualty figures from the fighting between the army and the RSF in remote areas of Sudan. Since the outbreak of the war three years ago, both sides have exchanged accusations of carrying out deadly drone strikes. Fighting has escalated in recent months in the strategic Kordofan region (central Sudan), near the borders with Ethiopia to the southeast and Chad to the west.
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