Drone Strike on Abu Zaeima Market Kills 11 in North Kordofan; Concurrent RSF Strike Wounds 4 at El-Obeid Fuel Station

A drone struck the crowded main market in Abu Zaeima (Abu Zaimai), a town in RSF-controlled North Kordofan State, on June 6, 2026, killing at least 11 civilians and wounding dozens of others, according to the Emergency Lawyers Sudan rights group. The attack was documented by Emergency Lawyers and reported by Al Jazeera, AFP, and the New Arab, with multiple independent outlets citing the group's casualty count. Neither the SAF nor the RSF publicly claimed responsibility; however, the strike pattern is consistent with SAF drone targeting of RSF-controlled North Kordofan towns, which has been a persistent feature of the war since the SAF counteroffensive began. Emergency Lawyers noted that drone strikes had also targeted nearby villages and a civilian vehicle in the 24 hours preceding the Abu Zaeima market strike, constituting a sustained aerial campaign on the area. On the same day, a separate drone strike — attributed to the RSF in the context of their ongoing campaign against SAF-held El-Obeid — struck a fuel station in El-Obeid, the SAF-held North Kordofan capital, wounding four civilians who were transferred to a local hospital. The dual attacks on a single day in North Kordofan — one on an RSF-held market town, one on the SAF capital — reflect the war's ongoing pattern of reciprocal aerial strikes on civilian and economic infrastructure, with no targeting restraint from either side. OHCHR documented 880+ civilian drone deaths and 770+ drone injuries across Sudan in Q1 2026 alone, with North Kordofan among the most affected regions.