Sudan: Türk Issues High Alert On Widening Sudan Conflict Amid Increased Use of Drones

Geneva — UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk today strongly condemned the rising use of armed unmanned aerial vehicles in Sudan and the deadly impact it is having on civilians, warning of intensified and widening violence in coming weeks that could lead to more displacement and disruption to critical aid flows.

Pointing to findings by the Office’s Sudan team that drone strikes accounted for at least 880 civilian deaths – more than 80 percent of all conflict-related civilian deaths – between…