Two drone strikes on civilian targets kill 28 people in Sudan

Market in North Darfur and truck carrying civilians in North Kordofan hit as civil war approaches fourth year At least 28 civilians have been killed in two separate drone strikes in Sudan, according to health workers, as the country’s brutal civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) approaches its fourth year. A strike hit a market in the town of Saraf Omra, in North Darfur state, on Wednesday, killing “22 people, including an infant, and injuring 17 more”, a health worker at the local clinic told Agence France-Presse (AFP). “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. It was not immediately clear which side sent the drone. 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. The road, which runs east to west through the state capital, El Obeid, and onwards to Darfur, has been the subject of numerous drone attacks from the army and the RSF. “Six bodies arrived at the hospital yesterday, three of them charred, in additi