Sudan, DR Congo, Pakistan

Today's three stories you should know

Sudan

A drone strike on a busy market in central Sudan has killed at least 28 people and wounded dozens more, a local rights group said, adding that the market in the town of Ghubaysh in West Kordofan province was targeted at a time when it would be crowded with civilians. The Emergency Lawyers group blamed Sudan’s military-led government, which has been locked in a war with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group for more than three years, for the attack. A military source told AP that no civilians were killed and said the drones hit two RSF combat vehicles near the market. Drone warfare has become the biggest threat to civilian life, with both sides reported to be receiving the aircraft from foreign allies, including the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.

More from AP here.

NB: Proximities has published deep dives on the war in Sudan here and here.

DR Congo

The U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) has said it could take up to nine months before a vaccine is approved for the strain of Ebola that has already killed a suspected 139 people in a fast-moving outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Two "candidate vaccines" against the rarer Bundibugyo variety of the virus are being developed but neither has gone through clinical trials, WHO advisor Dr Vasee Moorthy said. There have been 600 suspected cases, 51 confirmed in DRC and two confirmed in neighbouring Uganda. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases is expected to rise given that the outbreak likely began at least two months before it was discovered.

More from BBC here.

Pakistan

A court in Pakistan has sentenced a man to death for the murder of popular TikTok and Instagram influencer Sana Yousaf, who was shot dead at her home in a murder that sparked outrage across the country. Umar Hayat, 23, admitted that he had developed a one-sided obsession with 17-year-old Yousaf after interacting with her online. According to police, he broke into her house in Islamabad after she had rejected repeated advances and killed her. Yousaf had more than a million followers on TikTok and half a million on Instagram, where she shared content on fashion and music. In recent years, several women in Pakistan with social platforms have been killed in so-called honour killings. Yousaf's father Syed Yousaf Hassan said the verdict was "a lesson for all such criminals in society."

More from Al Jazeera here.