Escalating Drone Warfare: UAE-Backed RSF Genocidal Attacks on Tina and Kornoi Continue

04:32 PM May, 27 2026

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The UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia continues to expand its campaign of violence across Sudan through the increasing use of drone warfare against civilian areas.

Recent attacks on the towns of Tina and Kornoi in North Darfur have once again placed civilians under direct assault, causing deaths, injuries, and further displacement among already vulnerable populations.

In Tina, reports indicate that 14 civilians were killed, most of them women and children, after drone strikes targeted civilian areas. Families who had already endured displacement and conflict now find themselves facing renewed attacks in what should have been places of safety. These attacks are not isolated incidents; they form part of a broader and deeply concerning pattern of violence directed at civilian communities.

The violence has not been confined to Darfur. Days earlier, drone attacks were also reported in Khartoum, raising growing concerns about the external networks sustaining and enabling these operations. Questions continue to emerge regarding military support structures and the involvement of external actors in expanding such attacks.

At the same time, civilians in Kordofan continue to face deadly assaults, with attacks resulting in further casualties, displacement, and worsening humanitarian conditions. What is increasingly clear is that the war is entering a dangerous phase where drone technology is being used not simply as a military tool, but as an instrument of fear and collective punishment against civilian populations.

The continued targeting of civilians across Darfur, Khartoum, and Kordofan reinforces a deeply troubling reality: violence is expanding in both geography and intensity, while civilians remain its primary victims.

The international community cannot continue responding with statements while atrocities continue and civilians remain exposed.

Human Rights Watch: El-Fasher and the Colombian Connection

The latest Human Rights Watch report has added another deeply troubling dimension to what happened in El-Fasher. According to the report, evidence including geolocated videos, witness testimonies, and investigative findings indicates that Spanish-speaking Colombian private military contractors were present alongside RSF fighters during the siege and takeover of El-Fasher. The report further raises concerns that recruitment, training, and deployment networks linked to these fighters were connected through structures operating from the United Arab Emirates. Human Rights Watch documented that these foreign fighters were allegedly involved in combat support, drone operations, and military training activities during the assault on El-Fasher.

The significance of these findings extends beyond the presence of foreign fighters themselves. They reinforce growing concerns that what unfolded in El-Fasher was not simply a local military operation, but a campaign sustained through broader networks of external support and coordination.

The Shame of Delayed Accountability

The international response to the genocide in Sudan remains deeply inadequate and increasingly difficult to defend. While civilians continue to be killed in Darfur, Kordofan, and elsewhere, accountability measures have remained limited and painfully slow.

Only days ago, an INTERPOL–UN Security Council Special Notice circulated sanctions measures against Al-Goney Hamdan Dagalo, procurement director of the RSF and brother of both Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo and Abdelrahim Dagalo. UN documentation states that Al-Goney played a central role in procuring weapons and military materiel for the RSF and contributed to sustaining operations, including the siege of El-Fasher.

Yet this development also raises an uncomfortable question: why now, and why only now؟

For months and years, evidence of supply networks, weapons flows, financial structures, and external support mechanisms has been accumulating. The crimes were visible, the patterns were documented, and the perpetrators were increasingly identified.

The concern is not simply that accountability came late. It is that the response has remained far smaller than the scale of the crimes themselves.

The demands remain clear:

The RSF militia must be designated as a terrorist organisation
Those enabling and sustaining these attacks must be held accountable
Urgent humanitarian support must reach civilians and displaced communities
The networks of financing, weapons transfers, and external support sustaining the violence must be confronted directly

Without accountability, the cycle of violence will continue.

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