UN says drone strikes killed more than 1,000 civilians in Sudan (opens in new tab)

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday that drone strikes killed more than 1,000 civilians in Sudan between January and May 2026, and said his office documented a sharp increase in drone attacks during the war’s fourth year. Türk also said U.N. rights officials documented rape and sexual violence in the conflict. The war began on April 15, 2023, when a power struggle between Sudan’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forc...