The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Monday that 114 people, including 63 children, were killed in “senseless” strikes on a hospital in South Kordofan last Thursday, calling for a ceasefire.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X, citing the organization’s system for monitoring attacks on healthcare, that “repeated strikes in Sudan’s South Kordofan State hit a kindergarten and, at least three times, the nearby Kalogi Rural Hospital, killing 114 people—including 63 children—and injuring 35 others.”
The chief administrator of the Kalogi unit, Issam Al-Din Al-Sayed, told Agence France Presse via a Starlink call that a drone carried out three strikes last Thursday: “the first on the kindergarten, then on the hospital, and it returned a third time to bomb as people were trying to rescue the children,” in this city located in South Kordofan and under the control of the Sudanese army.
Al-Sayed blamed the attack on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its ally, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North (SPLM–N) led by Abdelaziz Al-Hilu, which controls most of Kordofan and parts of Blue Nile State.
