Militia Drone Kills Senior Commander Accused of Planning Defection to Army

Agence France-Presse reported that 28 people were killed and 23 others injured, most of them affiliated with the Janjaweed militia, in a drone strike that targeted a restaurant and an armed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) vehicle inside a market in the town of Ghubeish, according to medical sources cited by the agency.

A Sudanese military source denied to AFP that civilian areas had been targeted, saying the strikes focused on military objectives, armed vehicles, and weapons and ammunition storage sites.

Meanwhile, local sources said the strike was carried out by a drone affiliated with the militia itself as part of an effort to eliminate a local RSF commander suspected of planning to defect with his forces to the Sudanese army.

On Sunday, sources also said a Janjaweed drone targeted fighters affiliated with Al-Safana forces after they refused to join the army in areas west of El-Obeid.

The sources added that the number of militia members recently killed by their own comrades’ weapons has exceeded those killed by army fire, indicating what they described as growing internal distrust and an apparent wave of internal purges within the militia.