The Sudan Medical doctors Community calls the assault in North Kordofan a ‘blatant violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation’.
Printed On 7 Feb 2026
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have launched a collection of drone assaults focusing on humanitarian assist convoys and gasoline vans throughout North Kordofan, killing not less than one individual and wounding a number of others, officers and medical organisations stated.
The North Kordofan state authorities condemned Friday’s strikes on a convoy linked to the World Meals Programme (WFP), urging the worldwide neighborhood and United Nations our bodies to impose sanctions on the RSF paramilitary group’s management.
The assaults occurred alongside the important thing highway connecting the state capital, el-Obeid, with Kosti in neighbouring White Nile state.
Combating between the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF has intensified throughout the Kordofan area since October 2025 after el-Fasher fell to the RSF, the place the group dedicated atrocities – a “crime scene” in accordance with the UN.
In line with the UN Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the primary strike at daybreak hit three vans in Er-Rahad.
A second assault adopted within the Allah Kareem space close to Es Samih, damaging 4 autos, together with vans carrying UN reduction provides.
In Um Rawaba, three drones struck a transport truck and a gasoline tanker, inflicting extra civilian casualties. The WFP has not but issued an official assertion.
The Sudan Medical doctors Community stated the convoy was delivering help to displaced communities in el-Obeid when it got here underneath assault, describing the incident as a “blatant violation of worldwide humanitarian regulation” and a warfare crime.
The group known as for an impartial investigation and stronger worldwide measures to guard humanitarian staff and infrastructure.
Washington additionally condemned the incident. “America condemns the latest drone assault on a World Meals Program convoy in North Kordofan transporting meals to famine-stricken folks which killed one and wounded many others,” US Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos wrote on X.
“Destroying meals supposed for folks in want and killing humanitarian staff is sickening,” he wrote.
“The Trump Administration has zero tolerance for this destruction of life and of U.S.-funded help; we demand accountability and prolong our condolences to all these affected by these inexcusable occasions and horrible warfare,” he added.
UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown stated the vans had been travelling from Kosti to ship life-saving meals help to displaced households close to el-Obeid once they had been struck.
She famous that the assault adopted one other drone strike earlier within the week on a WFP-related facility in Yabus, Blue Nile state, which injured an worker.
The brutal battle between the Sudanese military and the RSF, now approaching its third yr, has killed tens of hundreds of individuals, displaced almost 11 million and pushed a number of areas into famine situations.
UN estimates point out that greater than 21 million Sudanese face acute meals insecurity, with two-thirds of the inhabitants requiring pressing humanitarian help. Tens of hundreds have additionally fled to neighbouring Chad.
