RSF Drone Strikes Kill 23 in El-Obeid, Sudan, Rights Group Says

Drone strikes on the strategic Sudanese city of El-Obeid killed 23 people, a rights group said, as the assault began on Wednesday evening and continued into Thursday.

“Drone strikes on the central Sudanese city of el-Obeid have killed up to 23 people, officials and a rights group have reported”

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Emergency Lawyers said the attacks struck residential areas, a funeral gathering and a truck carrying food supplies, and it blamed the strikes on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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The Washington Post reported that Sudanese paramilitary forces carried out drone strikes overnight in central Sudan, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, with attacks starting late Wednesday and targeting various areas of el-Obeid including near an army position.

Al Jazeera said the overnight attacks had killed up to 23 people across the key hub in southern Kordofan, while Emergency Lawyers reported 23 killed and 19 wounded and health officials at el-Obeid Hospital said 15 were killed and more than 10 wounded.

The BBC described a drone strike on a funeral procession at a cemetery in el-Obeid that killed at least four people and injured several others, with Sudan Doctors Network and Emergency Lawyers blaming the RSF.

Emergency Lawyers said on social media that 23 people were killed and 19 others wounded in the El-Obeid strikes, while the RSF did not immediately claim responsibility and Al Jazeera said it could not independently verify the claim.

The Washington Post said two health officials at el-Obed Hospital reported that the attacks targeted various areas of el-Obeid, including near an army position, and that more than 10 people were also wounded, some critically.

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In a separate account, Anadolu Ajansı reported that the Sudan Doctors Network said RSF drones struck the Dalil cemetery during a funeral procession, killing four mourners and wounding seven others, and it said RSF drones also targeted a fuel station leaving five people seriously injured.

Radio Dabanga quoted Sudan Doctors Network spokesperson Tasnim El Amin condemning the attacks, saying targeting civilians, service facilities and food transport vehicles constituted a serious violation of international humanitarian law.

The BBC added that Emergency Lawyers said the drone strike on the cemetery was part of a series of drone strikes that started on Wednesday evening in which at least 23 people have died in all.

The drone attacks in and around El-Obeid came as the conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted in April 2023, and the Emergency Lawyers group described the assault as one of the deadliest aerial assaults since the war began.

“ISTANBUL June 10, 2026 • Update: June 10, 2026 Mohammad Sio Four people were killed and 12 others injured in drone strikes by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on civilian areas in North Kordofan State, a local medical group said on Wednesday”

Anadolu Ajansı

Macau Business said the United Nations documented at least 880 civilian deaths from drone strikes across the country between January and April this year, while the BBC said there are no reliable figures for the death toll but it is thought to be at least 50,000.

The BBC said El-Obeid is currently in the hands of the army and is a key battleground in Sudan's three-year civil war, sitting between RSF-controlled areas in the west and eastern areas where the army is mostly in charge.

Dabanga Radio TV Online reported that the Emergency Lawyers Group said drone attacks across Sudan killed at least 30 civilians and five soldiers this week, with the civilian death toll in El Obeid rising to 23 and additional strikes reported in Delling and North Kordofan.

Al Jazeera said the war has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly 13 million others, creating what the UN describes as the world’s largest displacement and hunger crises.