In a statement on Sunday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei condemned the massacre of dozens of defenseless civilians in the Kalogi area of Sudan’s South Kordofan state.
He expressed regret over the international community’s silence in the face of the dire humanitarian situation and the repeated slaughter of innocent people in Sudan.
Baqaei also urged the international community to deliver immediate humanitarian assistance to Sudanese displaced persons and to take serious and effective steps to halt foreign interference in Sudan and prevent the transfer of weapons to Sudanese rebels, whom he identified as the main drivers of the continuation and escalation of the crisis.
Nearly 80 people –more than half of them children– have been killed in a series of drone strikes targeting a kindergarten, a hospital and rescue teams in southern Sudan, local officials said on Sunday, blaming the attacks on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The attack, which took place on Thursday, involved three strikes, “first a kindergarten, then a hospital and a third time as people tried to rescue the children”, Essam al-Din al-Sayed, head of the Kalogi administrative unit said.
The UN children’s agency said the attack killed more than 10 children aged between five and seven, while the army-aligned foreign ministry put the overall death toll at 79, including 43 children.