{"id":52301,"date":"2026-08-03T23:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=52301"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T17:53:52","slug":"sudanese-army-drone-strike-hits-darfur-civil-court-killing-at-least-35-rights-group-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/sudanese-army-drone-strike-hits-darfur-civil-court-killing-at-least-35-rights-group-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudanese army drone strike hits Darfur civil court, killing at least 35, rights group says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>At least 35 people were killed in a Sudanese army drone strike on a civil court in Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region, a rights group said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency Lawyers, an independent group documenting atrocities in Sudan, said on Sunday afternoon drones targeted the headquarters of the civil court in Al-Zawiya Gara village in North Darfur State, \u201ca civilian facility that plays a judicial and social role in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDirecting attacks against civilians and civilian objects constitutes a grave violation of international humanitarian law,&#8221; said the group in a statement, and demanded an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Sudan plunged into all-out war in April 2023, between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese military, leaving at least 59,000 people killed, according to Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data, a conflict monitoring group. Aid groups say the figure is an undercount and the true number could be many times higher.<\/p>\n<p>Drone warfare has become a signature in the country&#8217;s battle, with both sides carrying out strikes. It is now the leading cause of death in Sudan, according to the United Nations, accounting for 80% of civilian deaths during the first four months of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese army did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 35 people were killed in a Sudanese army drone strike on a civil court in Sudan&#8217;s Darfur region, a rights group said. Emergency Lawyers, an independent group documenting atrocities in Sudan, said on Sunday afternoon drones targeted the headquarters of the civil court in Al-Zawiya Gara village in North Darfur State, \u201ca civilian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52303,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52301\/revisions\/52303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}