Sudan: Armed Forces Airstrikes in South Darfur

(Nairobi, June 4, 2025) – The Sudanese Armed Forces used unguided air-dropped bombs to carry out attacks in residential and commercial neighborhoods in Nyala, South Darfur in early February 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. The indiscriminate attacks, apparent war crimes, killed and injured scores of civilians.
The Sudanese military has repeatedly conducted attacks on Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, since the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the military’s adversary in the conflict, took control of the city in late October 2023. The city, home to over 800,000 inhabitants before the current conflict, is the largest city in Darfur and one of the largest in Sudan