RSF Drone Strike Kills 14 at Al-Tina Border Market — Chad Closes Sudan Frontier in Response

An RSF drone struck the weekly market in Al-Tina, a West Darfur town on the Sudan-Chad border, on May 25, 2026, killing at least 14 civilians — mostly women vendors selling food and tea — and wounding others. Al-Tina sits on the Sudan side of the Adre-Tine crossing, the primary conduit for millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing into Chad and the main humanitarian aid route into Darfur. Chad's government condemned the strike as 'outrageous and excessive aggression against its territorial integrity,' convened an emergency meeting of Chad's Defence and Security Council in N'Djamena, and subsequently closed the Sudan-Chad border. The border closure has severe humanitarian implications: the Adre crossing has been the principal refuge route for Darfuri civilians since 2023 and the primary channel for WFP and UNHCR operations into Darfur. Al-Tina and the surrounding Tine locality are already flagged by UN food security analysis as facing imminent famine risk. The strike on a civilian market during trading hours follows the RSF's documented pattern of targeting markets in civilian-populated areas — OHCHR recorded 28 market attacks by drones in Sudan between January and April 2026 alone. The RSF did not comment publicly. Sudan's SAF government condemned the strike as another RSF atrocity.