“The drone hit a parked oil truck, which caught fire along with part of the market,” said Hamid Suleiman, a trader at the market, which serves a remote area close to the border with Chad. Another strike hit a truck carrying civilians on a highway in an army-controlled area of North Kordofan, about 500 miles (800km) east of Darfur. Meanwhile, the number of civilians killed in drone strikes has increased this year, according to the UN, particularly in the Kordofan region. On 20 March, a drone strike on a hospital in East Darfur killed 64 people and wounded 89, according to the World Health Organization. The Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese group that documents civil war atrocities, said it was an army drone.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 26, 2026 10:30 UTC