UN warns drone attacks have become leading cause of civilian death in Sudan

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · Aug 06, 2026 · 158 words

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The stakes turn on whether readers accept that leaving at least 59,000 people killed, according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a conflict monitoring group. That point shapes the political meaning of the story.

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Claim 1: “leaving at least 59,000 people killed, according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a conflict monitoring group.”

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The figure of at least 59,000 deaths attributed to ACLED is reported by Deutsche Welle and corroborated by a web search result discussing UN warnings about the conflict's death toll.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Religious violence in Nigeria refers to Christian–Muslim strife in Nigeria tracing back to 1953. The present religious violence in Nigeria is dominated by the Boko Haram insurgency, which aims to est…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_violence_in_Nigeria

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (abbreviated ACLED) is a non-profit organization registered in the United States that specializes in the real-time collection, analysis, and mapping of data on pol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Conflict_Location_and_Ev…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict…

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Claim 2: “The UN says drone attacks have become the leading cause of death in Sudan, accounting for 80% of civilian casualties during the first four months of 2026.”

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Three independent web search results (France 24 and two other news reports) consistently state that the UN reported drone attacks accounted for 80% of civilian casualties in Sudan during the first four months of 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are a Sudanese paramilitary force formerly operated by the Sudanese government. They originated as auxiliary force militias known as the Janjaweed used by the Sudanese g…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Support_Forces

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, t…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since April 2023, there has been a civil war in Sudan between the two main factions of the country's military government. The conflict involves the internationally recognized government of Sudan contr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese_civil_war_(2023–prese…

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Claim 3: “Sudan plunged into all-out war in April 2023, between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military”

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The claim is confirmed by both a cross-reference from Al Jazeera and Wikipedia entries regarding the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), which explicitly state the war began in April 2023 between the SAF and RSF.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a timeline of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present) in 2023. This timeline is a dynamic and fluid list, and as such may never satisfy criteria of completeness. Moreover, some events m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Sudanese_civil…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The civil war in Sudan, which started on 15 April 2023, has seen widespread war crimes committed by both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with the RSF being singled …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_during_the_Sudanese…

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