Local security conflict

At least ten people were killed over the weekend when a drone strike hit a crowded market in north Darfur, according to local medics, who did not identify those responsible for the attack.
The strike comes amid intensified fighting in other parts of Sudan, prompting the evacuation of aid workers on Sunday from the besieged and famine-stricken city of Kadugli.
The north Darfur Emergency Chambers Council, one of hundreds of volunteer groups coordinating humanitarian assistance across the country, said the drone strike targeted the Al-Hara market in the Al-Malha locality on Saturday. It said the attack caused partial fires in shops and significant material damage, in addition to the reported fatalities.
The council did not specify who carried out the strike. There was no immediate comment from either the Sudanese army or the Rapid Support Forces.
Sudan has been gripped by war since April 2013, with fighting between the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces headed by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The conflict has killed tens of thousands, displaced around 12 million people, and created what the United Nations has described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Fighting is currently concentrated in South Kordofan, where clashes have intensified in Kadugli. A drone strike there last week killed eight people as they attempted to flee the army-controlled city.
A source from a humanitarian organisation operating in Kadugli told Agence France-Presse on Sunday that aid groups had evacuated all their staff from the city because of the deteriorating security situation.
The evacuation followed a UN decision to relocate its logistics hub from Kadugli, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity and without specifying where staff had been moved.