As many as 17 people, including female students, teachers, and health workers, were killed when Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary units launched a drone attack on a secondary school and a health centre in Sudan, officials confirmed on Thursday.
The strike occurred on Wednesday in Shukeiri village, White Nile State. Musa Al-Majri, director of al-Duwaim Hospital—the nearest major medical facility—reported that 10 others were wounded in the earlier attack.
The Sudan Doctors’ Network condemned the incident, stating, “This horrific crime represents a continuation of the violations committed by the RSF in White Nile State. Over the past two days, several civilian facilities have been targeted, including a student dormitory, a power station, and several residential neighbourhoods, in an escalation that reflects a continued pattern of targeting civilians without regard for international humanitarian law, which criminalises such acts.”
The RSF, driven out of the capital Khartoum by the Saudi-led coalition in March 2025, is widely regarded by regional allies as a terrorist faction due to its documented involvement in killings, torture, rape, and massacres.
One of the most notorious incidents occurred at Al-Fasher Hospital, where RSF militiamen gunned down more than 360 civilians—patients and their relatives—in broad daylight.
Satellite imagery later revealed extensive blood stains at the crime scene, highlighting the scale of the atrocities in a country already ravaged by malnutrition and one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
Following the capture of el-Fasher, widespread accounts emerged accusing the RSF of mass killings, rape, abductions, and looting, prompting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a formal investigation into alleged war crimes by both sides in the conflict.
Thousands have been killed and millions displaced in the war, which the United Nations describes as the world’s largest displacement and hunger crisis.
According to the latest figures from the World Food Programme, 21.2 million people—nearly 41 per cent of Sudan’s population—are facing acute food shortages, while more than 12 million have been forced to flee their homes.
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