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U.N. Says Drone Strikes Killed More Than 1,000 Civilians in Sudan

This escalation is deepening a humanitarian collapse, blocking relief and prompting urgent calls for accountability.

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Four men, wearing white robes, stand, looking at a mass grave in the dirt, covered with branches.
Sudanese refugees travel between Chad and Sudan amid the ongoing conflict. Reuters
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Overview

  • U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council on Monday that his office documented over 1,000 civilian deaths from drone strikes between January and May 2026.
  • Rights groups and witnesses reported a mid‑June strike on El-Obeid that killed about 23 people and damaged homes in a heavily contested transport hub.
  • Both sides in the three-year war are rapidly expanding drone use, turning battles into drone-dominated fights and raising concerns about automated weapons and unregulated attacks on towns.
  • The conflict has produced one of the world’s largest humanitarian crises, with about 34 million people needing aid and more than 11 million people displaced by fighting and sieges.
  • U.N. investigators and rights monitors say the war includes mass rape, ethnically targeted killings and other abuses that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.