Drone attacks are intensifying in Sudan – hitting schools and camps homing the displaced

The smell of explosives is still in the air when we arrive. Hours before, a displacement camp in Atbara housing families who fled the war in Sudan’s capital Khartoum was hit by two drone strikes in a four-pronged attack. The first bomb on 25 April burned donated tents and killed the children in them. The second hit a school serving as a shelter for the spillover of homeless families. Chunks of cement and plaster had been blasted off the walls of the classrooms where they slept when the second explosive was dropped. Blood marked the entrance of the temporary home…