114 Killed in Kalogi — Alleged RSF Drone and Rocket Strikes as Satellite Images Suggest El Fasher Massacre Concealment

Deadly Strikes in Kalogi and Alarming Evidence from El Fasher

Sudanese authorities say the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 114 civilians, including 46 children, in a series of drone-and-rocket strikes on Kalogi in South Kordofan on Thursday, the Sudanese Foreign Ministry reported. Officials described the attacks as part of an alleged campaign of targeted violence against civilian communities.

According to the Foreign Ministry, the first strike hit a kindergarten. When residents and caregivers rushed to help survivors, RSF forces carried out a second strike on the same site, killing additional people, many of them children. Witnesses and officials also reported that fighters pursued victims and medical personnel from a local hospital and struck a government building, bringing the confirmed death toll in Kalogi to 114.

"Killing children in their school is a horrific violation of children's rights," UNICEF representative Sheldon Yett said, urging all parties to cease attacks and allow safe, unhindered humanitarian access.

The call for safe access followed an assault on a U.N. World Food Programme truck that was part of a 39-truck convoy delivering aid in North Darfur. U.N. officials and rights monitors warned the Kalogi attacks echo recent events in El Fasher, which RSF forces seized about six weeks earlier after a prolonged siege.

Human rights groups and international media report that El Fasher now resembles a "massive crime scene," with bodies reportedly piled in the streets. Satellite imagery reviewed by rights groups shows RSF forces allegedly concentrating corpses at multiple locations and either burying victims in mass graves or burning bodies to destroy evidence. The city remains closed to U.N. war-crimes investigators, leaving satellite imagery as the primary source for independent verification of these claims.

Current estimates cited by rights monitors place the civilian death toll in El Fasher at roughly 60,000, with some 150,000 people reported missing. The RSF and Sudan's national army have been locked in a civil war for two years; observers estimate the broader conflict may have killed as many as 400,000 people and displaced about 12 million, producing a severe humanitarian emergency across the country.

Urgent Appeal

U.N. Human Rights Chief Volker Türk and other international actors have warned that Kordofan must not become another El Fasher, stressing the urgent need to protect civilians, preserve evidence for potential investigations, and restore safe humanitarian access.