{"id":43044,"date":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43044"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:04:29","slug":"drone-strikes-in-sudan-kill-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=43044","title":{"rendered":"Drone strikes in Sudan kill 33"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Drone strikes on markets in paramilitary-controlled towns in the Kordofan region killed 33 people Sunday, while a strike in Darfur resulted in a raging oil fire, sources told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the attacks were on small towns in West Kordofan state \u2014 part of the resource-rich Kordofan region, currently the fiercest battlefront in the nearly three-year war between Sudan&#8217;s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).<\/p>\n<p>In RSF-controlled Abu Zabad and Wad Banda, a combined 33 people were killed and 59 injured, according to a doctor at Abu Zabad hospital, where the victims were brought.<\/p>\n<p>Using a satellite internet connection to circumvent a communications blackout, Abu Zabad resident Hamad Abdullah said he helped bury 20 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Four of them were my relatives who worked in the market,&#8221; he told AFP, blaming the army for the strike.<\/p>\n<p>A military source denied the accusations, telling AFP that the &#8220;armed forces do not bombard civilian areas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since war broke out in April 2023, both sides have been accused of war crimes including targeting civilians and indiscriminately shelling residential areas.<\/p>\n<p>Air strikes by the army, carried out first by fighter jets and then drones, have killed dozens of civilians at a time.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drone strikes on markets in paramilitary-controlled towns in the Kordofan region killed 33 people Sunday, while a strike in Darfur resulted in a raging oil fire, sources told AFP. Two of the attacks were on small towns in West Kordofan state \u2014 part of the resource-rich Kordofan region, currently the fiercest battlefront in the nearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}