Sudanese paramilitary assault kills 50, together with 33 kids : NPR

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CAIRO — A drone assault by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a kindergarten in south-central Sudan, killing 50 folks, together with 33 kids, a docs’ group stated.

A displaced woman rests in Tawila, in the country's war-torn western Darfur region, on Tuesday, after fleeing el-Fasher following the city's fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Paramedics on the scene within the city of Kalogi in South Kordofan state had been focused in “a second sudden assault,” the group stated in a press release late Friday.

The loss of life toll is predicted to be greater, however communication blackouts within the space have made it tough to report casualties.

Thursday’s assault is the most recent within the combating between the paramilitary group, the Speedy Help Forces, often known as the RSF, and the Sudanese army, who’ve been at warfare for over two years. It’s now concentrating within the oil-rich Kordofan states.

“Killing kids of their faculty is a horrific violation of kids’s rights,” stated UNICEF Consultant for Sudan Sheldon Yett in a press release Friday.

“Kids ought to by no means pay the worth of battle,” stated Yett.

He stated UNICEF urges all events “to cease these assaults instantly and permit protected, unhindered entry for humanitarian help to achieve these in determined want.”

A whole bunch of civilians had been killed all through the Kordofan states in the previous few weeks as intensified combating shifted from Darfur after the RSF took over the besieged metropolis of el-Fasher.

People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, walk in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025.

Sudanese army aerial strikes on Sunday killed at the least 48 folks, largely civilians, in Kauda, South Kordofan.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk warned that Kordofan might face new atrocities like these in el-Fasher.

RSF’s violent takeover of el-Fasher was marked with executions of civilians, rapes and sexual assaults, and different atrocities. 1000’s escaped and hundreds extra are feared killed or trapped within the metropolis.

The RSF and the Sudanese army have been combating for energy over Sudan since 2023. Greater than 40,000 folks had been killed within the warfare, in line with the World Well being Group, and 12 million displaced. Nevertheless, support teams say the true loss of life toll might be method greater.