UN Reports Intensifying Drone Warfare and State Repression Trapping Civilians in Sudan

Civilians across Sudan remain caught between escalating drone warfare, state repression, and severe deprivation, with both warring factions committing widespread abuses, according to a United Nations spokesperson. A new report from the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan highlights that drone strikes, attributed to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), continue to kill and injure civilians and damage essential infrastructure in besieged cities like El Obeid. Concurrently, security forces aligned with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have increased mass surveillance and arbitrary detentions, deepening fear among the population.