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Residents say 40 killed in alleged army strike in southern Sudan

Darfur Regional Governor and leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), Minni Arko Minnawi,greets as he arrives to visit the Al-Afad camp for displaced people in the town of Al-Dabba, northern Sudan, on November 26, 2025. [AFP]

At least 40 people were killed in southern Sudan, two people who took part in the burials said Monday, in a strike that paramilitaries and a human rights group blamed on the army.

The Rapid Support Forces and their ally in the southern Kordofan region, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu, accused the army of striking the village of Komo on Saturday.

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