More than 100 people died in a Sudanese military drone strike on a busy market in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur province in southwestern Sudan. Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking the violence, confirmed the casualties on Tuesday.
The strike happened on Monday evening and left 113 people injured. Many of the dead and wounded were women and children, according to the group, which blamed the military and condemned the attack.
"This massacre transformed a civilian marketplace into a scene of mass killing and injury and is an assault that threatens the lives of residents and compounds their suffering amid the ongoing war," the group said. It called for an independent investigation.
Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, said 36 bodies arrived at its hospital in Nyala and reported 150 injured in its emergency room. Nyala is controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, who have fought the army since 2023.
Drone warfare is a major part of the conflict. In recent weeks, an escalation of drone strikes by both sides has killed hundreds. The warring parties increasingly target civilian infrastructure including hospitals, dams, schools, markets and displacement camps, the UN says.
Large parts of Khartoum lost electricity for more than 12 hours on Tuesday following a drone strike on a major power substation. An official said a drone hit the Al-Markhiyat transformer station in Omdurman, on the outskirts of the capital.
The state-run Sudanese Electricity Distribution Company cited serious damage and technical faults to the distribution network and several main stations without detailing the cause. It apologised to residents for the prolonged outages.
Abdel-Hafiz Abdel-Mutaal, a resident living near the Al-Markhiyat station, heard a drone before the blast. "At around 4:30 in the morning, on my way to dawn prayers, I heard the sound of a drone very close by, and just moments later a huge explosion, and the power went out," he said.
The conflict has killed at least 59,000 people, according to conflict monitor ACLED, though aid groups say the true toll is likely higher. Over 67 percent of the population depends on aid, while 825,000 children face acute malnutrition.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification warned last week that the humanitarian situation across greater Darfur and Kordofan states is worsening. Food insecurity in these areas puts populations at risk of famine.
