RSF attack on Sudan’s South Kordofan kills at least 14, including children

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Mar 29, 2026 · 393 words · By The Associated Press

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RSF attack on Sudan’s South Kordofan kills at least 14, including children Sudan Doctors Network said RSF and allies shelled residential areas in the city of Dilling for several hours.

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What happened

RSF attack on Sudan’s South Kordofan kills at least 14, including children Sudan Doctors Network said RSF and allies shelled residential areas in the city of Dilling for several hours.

Why it matters

An attack by Sudanese paramilitaries on South Kordofan has killed at least 14 people, including five children and two women, according to a medical group.

Common ground

The Sudan Doctors Network said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North shelled residential areas in the city of Dilling in an attack that lasted hours, leaving at least 23 others wounded, including seven…

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Claim 1: “The Sudan Doctors Network said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and their allies in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement–North shelled residential areas in the city of Dilling in an attack that lasted hours, leaving at least 23 others wounded, including seven children”

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Claim 2: “The UN Human Rights Office said more than 500 civilians were killed in drone strikes this year, as of mid-March”

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Claim 3: “The RSF invaded that area in October in an attack that United Nations-commissioned experts said bore “hallmarks of genocide””

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Claim 4: “RSF attack on Sudan’s South Kordofan kills at least 14, including children”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Kordofan campaign is the theater of the War in Sudan that takes place in the 3 states that make up the Kordofan region: North Kordofan, South Kordofan, and West Kordofan. The campaign began on 15 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kordofan_campaign_(2023–presen…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between two factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government controlled by the Sudan…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023–prese…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — West Kordofan (Arabic: غرب كردفان; Ġarb Kurdufān) is one of the 18 wilayat or provinces of Sudan. In 2006 it had an area of 111,373 km2 and an estimated population of approximately 1,320,405. Al-Fulah…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Kordofan

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Claim 5: “WHO says attack on Sudan hospital killed 64, including 13 children”

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Claim 6: “The doctors’ group warned of a possible “catastrophic scenario” akin to the one that occurred in the Darfur city of el-Fasher”

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Claim 7: “The military, which this year broke an RSF siege on the city that saw supplies cut off and frequent bombardment, said it fended off the attack on the capital of South Kordofan province”

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Claim 8: “Sudan Doctors Network said RSF and allies shelled residential areas in the city of Dilling for several hours”

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rapid Support Forces (RSF; Arabic: قُوَّاتْ الدّعْمْ السَّرِيعْ, romanized: Quwwāt ad-daʿm as-sarīʿ) are a Sudanese paramilitary force formerly operated by the Sudanese government. They originated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present) in 2026. This timeline is a dynamic and fluid list, and as such may never satisfy criteria of completeness. Moreover, some events m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Sudanese_civil…

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Claim 9: “More than 6,000 people were killed over three days in el-Fasher when the RSF unleashed “a wave of intense violence … shocking in its scale and brutality”, according to a report from the UN Human Rights Office”

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Claim 10: “More than 40,000 people have been killed over the past three years, according to UN figures”

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Claim 11: “The war between the Sudanese army and the RSF erupted in mid-April 2023, unleashing a wave of violence that has led to one of the world’s fastest-growing man-made humanitarian crises, with more than 12 million forced from their homes, and more than 33 million people in need of humanitarian aid”

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Claim 12: “An attack by Sudanese paramilitaries on South Kordofan has killed at least 14 people, including five children and two women, according to a medical group”

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Claim 13: “Both sides have been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which are being investigated by the International Criminal Court”

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Claim 14: “The fighting has recently centred on Darfur and the Kordofan region, where deadly attacks, mostly by drones, have been reported daily”

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