Rhino: Follow-up – A number of leaders from the Sudan Liberation Movement (Manawi faction) were killed today, Wednesday, July 1, in an airstrike that targeted a convoy of vehicles carrying supplies on the Kosti road heading toward El Obeid, according to a report today by the online newspaper Al-Jamaheer, citing sources on the ground.

The website quoted the sources as saying that a large convoy of vehicles carrying supplies for the Fifth Division—led and protected by forces from the Sudan Liberation Movement (Manawi faction)—was attacked by airstrikes, resulting in the deaths of several Manawi leaders and the complete destruction of the supplies.