Evening Briefing · Wednesday 21 October 2026
Drone Strike on Abyei Market Kills More Than 150
South Sudanese officials said Sudan’s military carried out drone strikes on a market in the disputed Abyei region, killing more than 150 people — one of the deadliest attacks of a war that has spilled across Sudan’s borders. Médecins Sans Frontières treated the injured.
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Sudan’s war between the armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces erupted in April 2023, triggering one of the world’s gravest humanitarian crises and drawing in local militias and foreign powers. Abyei, claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, has long been a flashpoint. A strike of this scale on a civilian market across a border marks a dangerous widening of the conflict’s reach.