KHARTOUM: A drone strike launched by Sudan`s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed 26 women and four children on Friday near the southeastern border with Ethiopia.

The latest front line in Sudan`s war between the regular army and the RSF is the border region with Ethiopia, which is facing its own internal conflict that threatens to escalate into a regional war.

Since Sudan`s war broke out in April 2023, it has killed more than 200,000 people, aid workers estimate, and created the world`s largest hunger and displacement crises.

This year alone, nearly100,000 people have been displaced across Blue Nile state, according to UN figures.

In a displacement camp in Blue Nile`s Abu Shendi, survivors `buried 26 women and four children` from Friday`s strike, one person involved in the burial said.

The drone hit just outside the camp, near an informal gold mining site, where women earn a daily wage using chemicals and their bare hands to clear gold nuggets from clumps of earth men have extracted. The victims included `young girls who work with their families in refining the gold`, another eyewitness said.-AFP