Students among 17 dead in RSF drone attack in Sudan’s White Nile State

Sudanese Doctors Network says ‘horrific crime represents a continuation of the violations committed by the RSF.’Published On 12 Mar 2026At least 17 people have been killed, including female students, teachers, and health workers, following a drone attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a secondary school and a health centre in war-torn Sudan‘s White Nile State, in the south of the country, according to the Sudanese Doctors Network.The attack on Wednesday in the village of Shukeiri also wounded 10, according to Musa Al-Majri, director of al-Duwaim Hospital, the nearest major medical facility to the village.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4Sudan’s devastating war rages on as regional rivalries deepenlist 2 of 4Volunteers rebuild Sudan’s oldest psychiatric hospital destroyed by warlist 3 of 4Sudanese army retakes Bara, secures el-Obeid in North Kordofanlist 4 of 4US blacklists Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood as ‘terrorist’ groupend of listThe network said, “This horrific crime represents a continuation of the violations committed by the RSF in White Nile State. Over the past two days, several civilian facilities have been targeted, including a student dormitory, a power station, and several residential neighborhoods, in an escalation that reflects a continued pattern of targeting civilians without regard for international humanitarian law, which criminalizes such acts.”After the RSF was pushed out of the capital, Khartoum, in March 2025, by the government aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) it is pitted against, the paramilitary group shifted its campaign to the Kordofan region and the city of el-Fasher in North Darfur, which had been the army’s last bastion in the vast Darfur region until it fell to the RSF in October.Following the capture of el-Fasher, accounts surfaced accusing the group of mass killings, rape, abductions and widespread looting, prompting the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a formal probe into alleged “war crimes” by both parties to the conflict.