WW3 Map Updates Show Sudan Drone Strikes Killing Over 160 Civilians

Updates visible on the ww3 map reveal a BBC investigation documenting at least 43 deliberate RSF attacks on hospitals and healthcare facilities in El Fasher during the 2024-2025 siege, resulting in 55 medical workers killed, 120 injured and 10 abducted, one year after the city's fall amid Sudan's ongoing civil war that has seen both sides increasingly rely on drone strikes killing civilians. [2] [4]

One Year After El Fasher's Fall

Nine in 10 organizations report that trauma persists among women and girls displaced from El Fasher a year after its fall, with risks of renewed violence and increasing drone attacks across Blue Nile State and Khartoum. [1] A year ago, the world watched as atrocities in El Fasher, North Darfur, were livestreamed, and a year later the impact of violence and the risk of renewed violence remains. [1]

BBC Investigation into Attacks on Healthcare

BBC investigation reveals RSF deliberately targeted hospitals in El Fasher during the 2024-2025 siege. — Source: myjoyonline A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence suggesting that Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces systematically targeted and dismantled healthcare facilities in El Fasher during a prolonged siege and the subsequent capture of the Darfur city a year ago. [2] [3] Drawing on accounts from people who were present in El Fasher, the BBC identified details of at least 43 separate attacks on hospitals and other healthcare facilities between May 2024 and October 2025, with some sites struck multiple times. [2] [4] The investigation also documents the impact of the conflict on medical personnel in the western Sudanese city, showing 120 healthcare workers injured, 55 killed and 10 forcibly disappeared or abducted between April 2023 and October 2025. [3] [4] Dr Muhamed Suliman, a surgeon who worked in El Fasher during the siege, told the BBC that the RSF sought to force hospitals out of operation, stating the RSF were trying to evacuate the hospitals to put them out of service because the health system is the cornerstone of any city or any state. [2] [4]

Chronology of the Siege on Medical Facilities

Some medical facilities in El Fasher closed down within weeks of the country's civil war starting in April 2023, including the Teaching Hospital located in a conflict zone in the middle of the city, with its operations moved to El Fasher's South Hospital. [3] [4] In late May and early June of 2024, the South Hospital was shelled several times as paramilitary fighters pushed forward from their positions in the east of the city, and the attacks culminated in an RSF raid on 8 June. [3] [4] After the South Hospital shut, its staff and remaining equipment were moved to the Saudi Maternity Hospital in the west of the city, where the army had its main bases, and within days the pace of attacks on the facility picked up. [3] [4] The Specialised Children's Hospital, which shut down at the beginning of the war along with the Teaching Hospital, moved to two other locations, both of which were then shelled and forced to close, and similarly the main dialysis centre was struck and then attacked again after it relocated. [3] [4] By the time the RSF seized the city in October 2025, the Saudi Hospital was the only functioning health facility left. [3] [4]

International Condemnation and Legal Context

BBC investigation reveals RSF deliberately targeted hospitals in El Fasher during the 2024-2025 siege. — Source: bbc UN human rights chief Volker Türk described the repeated RSF attacks on medical facilities as serious violations of international humanitarian law that could amount to war crimes. [2] [3] UN investigators stated the violence in El Fasher bore the hallmarks of genocide, with RSF forces largely composed of Arab militias targeting non-Arab communities amid ethnic tensions. [2] [4] Both sides have attacked healthcare facilities, including a March 2026 Sudanese military drone strike on al-Daein hospital in RSF-controlled eastern Darfur that killed dozens. [2] [3] WHO called events in El Fasher one of the clearest examples of the conflict's impact on health care. [2] [4] Médecins Sans Frontières stated it did not know if hospitals were being intentionally targeted but that the belligerents were not taking any precautions to spare them. [3] [4]

RSF Response and Counter-Claims

The RSF rejected the allegations as propaganda. [2] [3] The group’s health minister dismissed the findings as propaganda, alleging that Sudan’s national army and its allies were attempting to damage the paramilitary force’s reputation. [2] [4] Dr Alaa Eldin Nugud, a prominent Sudanese surgeon who has joined the RSF-backed civilian government as health minister, insisted the South Hospital was being used as a military base and declared that missile launchers were set up on the grounds. [3] [4] The BBC has found no independent evidence of Dr Nugud's allegations, and the government of the Darfur region categorically rejected the charges. [3] [4]

Escalation of Drone Warfare Across Sudan

A surge in drone warfare by both the Sudanese Armed Forces and RSF has killed more than 160 civilians in recent days through strikes on residential areas, markets and infrastructure, with 21 different drone models documented from six supplying countries. [5] In the Imtidad Nasser neighbourhood east of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, residents heard the buzz of drones in the sky before anti-aircraft fire and two huge explosions shook the area, killing three children from a family in the community. [5] The deadliest recent attack occurred near a market in al-Dabba town in West Kordofan, where a drone struck a transport hub, killing 80 people. [5] Early on Monday, an army drone attack hit the RSF stronghold of Nyala, killing 17 people, while a strike by the paramilitary group on a gathering of displaced people in the Blue Nile province killed 41 individuals. [5] The United Nations has condemned the strikes, with spokesperson Stephane Dujarric stating the organization is alarmed by the continued deadly drone strikes across the country that are killing civilians, including children, and that are disrupting central services. [5]

What to watch next: Nine in 10 organizations say trauma persists among women and girls displaced from El Fasher a year after its fall, with risks of renewed violence and increasing drone attacks across Blue Nile State and Khartoum. [1]