RSF Drones Strike Jebel Awliya (South Khartoum), El Obeid, and Rahad al-Nuba on May 1, 2026

RSF drones struck three locations on May 1, 2026 in a coordinated multi-target attack. Jebel Awliya in southern Khartoum State was struck in what Al Jazeera later described as the first in a renewed wave of RSF strikes on the capital area that week. El Obeid (Al-Ubayyid), the SAF-held capital of North Kordofan State, was targeted by RSF drones continuing the near-daily drone campaign against the city that had already killed 20 civilians in the previous two days (April 24: 13 killed including 8 children; April 25: 7 killed, 22 wounded). Rahad al-Nuba, also in North Kordofan, was simultaneously targeted. Casualties from the May 1 strikes were not confirmed in available reports; the strikes are documented in the Wikipedia Sudan Civil War 2026 timeline sourced directly to Sudan Tribune article 313383. The attacks are consistent with the RSF's documented campaign of near-daily drone strikes on SAF-held urban centers including El Obeid, Khartoum, and White Nile State cities — a pattern that OHCHR documented killed approximately 700 civilians in drone strikes in Q1 2026 alone, with the majority in the Kordofan region. The May 1 multi-site strikes follow the April 29 RSF drone wave on White Nile State (Kosti and Kenana) and the April 30 RSF strike on a SAF command meeting in Singa (27 killed, 73 wounded), indicating continued expansion of RSF's long-range drone campaign.