Drone attack kills 28 at market in southern Sudan

A drone strike on a crowded market in southern Sudan killed 28 people and injured 23 more on Tuesday, a medical source and witnesses told Agence France-Presse, in one of the deadliest recent attacks on civilians in the country's three-year war.

The strike hit the town of Ghubaysh in West Kordofan, an area controlled by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces whose conflict with the Sudanese military has devastated much of the country since April 2023.

The wounded and the dead were taken to the tow ...