Sudan: Civilians Killed in Wave of Attacks Across Blue Nile, Kordofan As Sudan's Conflict Widens

What the report says

AllAfrica, distributing a Darfur Network for Human Rights report dated July 24, 2026, said attacks in Sudan’s Blue Nile and Kordofan regions this week killed dozens of civilians, including children, as the war spreads beyond its earlier fronts. The report links the violence to fighting involving the Sudanese army, the Rapid Support Forces and allied armed groups.

In Blue Nile State, the report cited Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese legal rights group, as saying an army drone hit a gathering of displaced people in the southern Badia area on Thursday. Early accounts indicated dozens were dead or wounded, many of them women and children. The civilians had reportedly fled earlier fighting in Sinnar and were living with limited shelter, livelihoods and aid amid clashes involving the army and an RSF-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North alliance led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu.

In West Kordofan, medical sources at Al-Nuhud Hospital said a six-year-old boy was killed and his brother critically injured when an RSF patrol fired on a civilian vehicle west of Al-Nuhud. The vehicle was said to be carrying civilians from East Darfur toward El Obeid in North Kordofan. Separately, a drone attack on a market in Ar Rahad, North Kordofan, reportedly killed at least two children, four adults and injured more than 20 people.

Emergency Lawyers and DNHR called for an end to attacks on civilian areas and movement routes, independent investigations, accountability and humanitarian access. The reported incidents matter because they point to widening insecurity in Sudan, where the conflict has repeatedly disrupted displacement routes, markets, health services, schools and aid delivery.