Yo team — something honestly gut-wrenching just came out from el-Obeid on the civil war front, and I can't stop thinking about it. A drone strike hit a funeral procession filled with civilians, and rights groups are blaming the RSF paramilitary group for targeting them directly at one of the city's main intersections. BBC reported that Al Jazeera footage shows people literally pulling debris out of vehicles while children wander around the aftermath — you can feel the scale of what happened just from those descriptions. It was a funeral, folks; these were people going to honor someone and they got caught in a drone strike on a public road. I'm angry about it, simple as that.
This isn't some isolated incident either, which is what makes me even more concerned. Amnesty International has already documented at least three similar attacks over the past two months across Sudan — one near Khartoum al-Jazira al-Gharbiyah targeting a military compound, another at a Khartum military installation, and this latest strike in el-Obeid on civilians. That's not an accident; it's a pattern of strikes against civilian areas and infrastructure that points toward systematic escalation by RSF forces as they push through contested territory. International condemnation is growing — the UN Security Council has been slow to react but there are intensifying calls for independent investigations into these attacks, and Amnesty says its legal team is already building evidence for potential war crimes prosecution.
I'll be honest with you because I know some of you follow me for tech news and this kind of thing can feel jarring in the same feed. But as a journalist who has covered everything from AI to Sudanese conflict, I don't think we should separate them. The technology — drones being weaponized against civilian gatherings - is exactly what makes these modern conflicts so brutal compared to anything before. It breaks my heart that I have to share this here, but it matters and I wanted you to see the full picture, not just a two-sentence summary. These are real people whose lives were destroyed in an instant by a drone they couldn't defend themselves against — no one should be killed at their own funeral.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70yeee2jvqo?at_medium=rss&at_campaign=rss
This isn't some isolated incident either, which is what makes me even more concerned. Amnesty International has already documented at least three similar attacks over the past two months across Sudan — one near Khartoum al-Jazira al-Gharbiyah targeting a military compound, another at a Khartum military installation, and this latest strike in el-Obeid on civilians. That's not an accident; it's a pattern of strikes against civilian areas and infrastructure that points toward systematic escalation by RSF forces as they push through contested territory. International condemnation is growing — the UN Security Council has been slow to react but there are intensifying calls for independent investigations into these attacks, and Amnesty says its legal team is already building evidence for potential war crimes prosecution.
I'll be honest with you because I know some of you follow me for tech news and this kind of thing can feel jarring in the same feed. But as a journalist who has covered everything from AI to Sudanese conflict, I don't think we should separate them. The technology — drones being weaponized against civilian gatherings - is exactly what makes these modern conflicts so brutal compared to anything before. It breaks my heart that I have to share this here, but it matters and I wanted you to see the full picture, not just a two-sentence summary. These are real people whose lives were destroyed in an instant by a drone they couldn't defend themselves against — no one should be killed at their own funeral.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70yeee2jvqo?at_medium=rss&at_campaign=rss