Authorities reported at least 58 deaths after violence affecting communities in North Kordofan's Azhaf area near Bara, blaming Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Local authorities announced the revised toll after residents found the bodies of 27 people who had been missing.
Radio Dabanga named the affected settlements as El Rada, El Marra and Umm Saadoun El Sharif. The people later found dead had disappeared during the violence. Local sources said RSF fighters attacked on Thursday with about 20 combat vehicles. The first count was more than 30 civilians killed, with dozens wounded.
Local fighters mounted a response, according to the General Union of Dar Hamid. It warned that tensions remained elevated and could worsen. The supplied evidence did not give casualty figures for combatants, explain the duration of the confrontation or say whether any force controlled the affected villages afterward.
The Sudan Doctors Network confirmed that an attack took place and accused the RSF of targeting civilian communities. Spokesperson Tasneem El Amin told Radio Dabanga there was no military presence in the villages and called the violence a serious breach of international humanitarian law. The account did not include a response from the RSF to the allegations.
Sudan's foreign ministry condemned the killings and framed them as part of repeated violence against civilians. It called for stronger protection and accountability from regional and global bodies, including the African Union, UN and rights organizations. The National Umma Party also denounced the attack and urged armed groups to leave populated places and comply with humanitarian law.
A separate deadly incident was reported in West Kordofan on Saturday. The Sudan Founding Alliance, Emergency Lawyers and the National Umma Party said a drone hit two civilian vehicles on the Abu Zabad–El Fula road, killing 10 people: eight children and two women. Four others were injured. According to Emergency Lawyers, those struck had been living as displaced people in Kadam after escaping combat in Abu Karshola. The evidence does not connect that strike operationally to the villages west of Bara.
Kordofan regional governor Hamad Mohamed Hamed, who serves under Tasees, blamed the Islamic Movement for allegedly stoking tribal tension through efforts to mobilize Dar Hamid members beside Sudanese Armed Forces personnel. He urged communities to reject mobilization. His political allegation was not independently substantiated in the supplied account.
The central reported toll of 58 rests on local authority information and the discovery of missing residents' bodies. Independent confirmation, a full list of victims and an RSF response were not provided. Responsibility, the sequence across each village and the continuing risk to residents therefore require further corroboration.
