Published On 7/6/2026
The United Nations said on Monday that the war in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces resulted in the death and injury of about 330 children during the first six months of 2026, and that thousands were displaced from destroyed villages near the western border with Chad as a result of attacks launched by the Rapid Support Forces.
The United Nations Migration Agency reported that more than 3,500 people were forced to flee last Friday from the village of Wadi Fungo in the Um Baru area of North Darfur state.
Agence France-Presse, citing survivors, reported that deaths and injuries occurred in villages near the border with Chad last week, after dozens of Rapid Support Forces vehicles invaded them and burned homes.
These developments coincide with Amnesty International, last week, accusing the Rapid Support Forces of committing acts of ethnic cleansing during their attack on the city of El Fasher between 2024 and 2025, and calling for action to prevent the recurrence of these practices.
Serious violations
In parallel, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced that about 100 children were deformed, most of them in the Kordofan and Darfur regions, during the first six months of this year.
The representative of UNICEF in Sudan, Sheldon Yett, said in a statement that children “are being killed and injured inside their homes, on the roads, in markets, and while trying to access basic services such as education and health care.”
UNICEF explained that since last May, drone strikes and other attacks, according to reports, resulted in the killing of 18 children and the injury of 17 others, indicating that children throughout Sudan are still under the burden of an increasingly deadly war.
She added: “Not only do children face the immediate risk of death and injury, but the conflict also exposes them to grave violations, including recruitment, exploitation, kidnapping, sexual violence, and attacks on schools and hospitals.”
Red alert
In this context, the United Nations organization warned of “serious dangers” threatening the safety of children in the city of El Obeid in North Kordofan State, central Sudan, which has been subjected for weeks to continuous bombing by drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces, targeting power stations, water networks, and schools.
While it issued a “red alert” regarding the Rapid Support Forces’ readiness to launch a bloody attack on “Al-Obeid”, which is inhabited by half a million people, UNICEF expressed its concern about the possibility of a repeat of the atrocities committed by these forces during an attack in October 2025 on the city of El-Fasher in the Darfur region, warning that any further deterioration in Al-Obeid could expose more children to the risk of death, injury, displacement and other grave dangers to their safety.
“Whiteness is a legitimate target.”
In the same direction, the Sudan Founding Alliance, “Tasis,” headed by the “Rapid Support” commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti,” said that the city of El Obeid is a “legitimate military target,” claiming that the city “includes military bases, command centers, operations rooms, ammunition depots, and facilities used in managing military operations.”
The three states of the Kordofan region, north, west and south of the country, have witnessed fierce clashes between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces since last October 25, in light of a war between the two parties that has been ongoing since April 2023, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of Sudanese and the displacement of about 13 million.
