RSF-Affiliated Fighters Kill At Least 27 Civilians In Villages West Of Bara, North Kordofan

A force affiliated with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 27 people, including elderly residents, in an attack on villages west of Bara in Sudan’s North Kordofan state, according to the Sudan Doctors Network.

The Cairo-based medical NGO said the attacks took place on Thursday in the al-Murrah area and described them as “a new crime targeting unarmed civilians in areas with no military presence”.

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Al Jazeera Net reported that analysts said Sudanese civilians have become a legitimate target as prospects for a peaceful settlement recede, and it cited the Sudan Doctors Network’s confirmation of dozens of civilian deaths in the al-Murra area west of North Kordofan.

In the same reporting, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (Hemeti) said his fighters would not stop fighting until the goals for which they entered the war are achieved, framing the violence as tied to war aims rather than civilian protection.

Al Jazeera Net also said Dr. Kofi Kwako described what happened on Thursday in Al-Murra in Barra, North Kordofan as a new massacre that should be condemned, and it added that the massacre marks a deeper shift in the conflict.

In Central Darfur state, the Darfur IDPs Coordination said the Sudanese army carried out aerial bombing of the Hamidiya camp in Zalingei, the capital of Central Darfur, on Monday morning.

A medical official at Zalingei Hospital confirmed that “15 injured people arrived at the hospital, some in critical condition,” with dozens more injured ranging from moderate to light.

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The coordination’s spokesman, Adam Rijal, said the airstrike occurred at 6 a.m. local time and targeted “Block 4” inside the camp, described as among the most densely populated by the displaced.

The rights group Emergency Lawyers said the targeted camp is a civilian facility providing essential humanitarian services amid the acute crisis in Darfur and that the shelling destroyed several homes as shells fell inside the camp housing thousands of displaced people.

The same article said UNHCR condemned a drone strike on a relief shipment headed to northern Darfur last Friday, noting that 700,000 displaced people had sought safety in Tawila and that the fire destroyed all relief supplies.

Ouest-France cited ACLED figures on drone deaths, saying drones killed 80 Sudanese in 2023 and 369 the following year, before recording 2,190 deaths in 2025.

The same Ouest-France piece framed the drone use as part of a broader pattern in which the army and paramilitary forces resort to airstrikes that target military targets and civilian objectives.

Al Jazeera Net reported that the Sudan Doctors Network said there was no presence of the army or its allies in the al-Murra area west of North Kordofan, and it linked the killings to an urgent need for effective international action to stop the war.

It also described a political initiative by Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sovereign Council, to launch a comprehensive political dialogue to end Sudan’s crises, while RSF commander Hemeti’s stance and analysts’ readings kept the RSF out of any settlement track.

The article further said the United Nations described Sudan’s humanitarian catastrophe as expanding, and it quoted analysts’ warnings that civilians may face a greater catastrophe in the future as both sides remain determined to exclude the other from any future political process.