Sudan’s civil war hit its 1,000th day around January 9, 2026, as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) unleashed drone strikes on Dilling, South Kordofan, killing dozens including at least five on January 27 in southern forested areas and 20-40 more on January 28-29 targeting the army's 54th Division base and main market, aiming to reimpose the siege amid shortages of food and medical supplies as doctors pleaded for humanitarian corridors.
The barrage came one day after Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) broke a nearly two-year RSF siege on January 27, reopening supply routes. RSF consolidated el-Fasher control since October 2025, leaving it a destroyed ghost town with mass atrocities and 260,000 displaced, per MSF.
SAF's Abdel Fattah al-Burhan rejected Turkish peace talks, insisting on RSF surrender; RSF dismissed UN plans as unfeasible fantasy. Foreign arms sustain the fight—UAE drones for RSF, Egyptian/Turkish for SAF—driving 14 million displacements and 2026 famine risks from aid cuts.
