Sudan War Spillover Kills 17 More Civilians in Chad

After a drone originating from the war-torn Sudan struck a Chadian town, the Chadian government shut its border and ordered military retaliation against any future attacks.

Chad’s security forces launched an operation on March 19 to search for weapons in the eastern region of Tine, which extends across the border into war-torn Sudan, from where a drone took off and struck the Chadian town of Mabrouka a day earlier. It killed at least 17 civilians and wounded dozens.

Both parties to the civil war…