UNISFA holds funeral for slain Bangladeshi soldiers, evacuates Kadugli

December 15, 2025 (KADUGLI) – The United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) on Monday held an official funeral ceremony for the Bangladeshi soldiers killed in the attack on Kadugli, South Kordofan State, and also began vacating its camp in the city.

On Sunday, the mission evacuated the bodies of the deceased and the wounded who fell due to the aerial bombardment that targeted the mission’s facilities in the city of Kadugli, to the Abyei area, whose sovereignty is disputed by Sudan.

Sources told Sudan Tribune that the UNISFA mission “held a funeral ceremony for six fallen soldiers of the UN peacekeeping mission in Abyei.”

They indicated that the deceased soldiers were transported by helicopter, after the ceremony, to the city of Wau in South Sudan, and from there to Entebbe Airport in Uganda, in preparation for their transfer to Bangladesh.

A source within the UNISFA mission revealed that they have begun preparing lists in preparation for the evacuation of the mission’s logistics camp in Kadugli, which houses the logistics base for the mission’s Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM).

Six Bangladeshi soldiers were killed and 8 others of the same nationality were injured in the drone attack launched on Saturday on a fuel depot and a logistics camp belonging to the UNISFA mission in Kadugli.

The Sudanese government, and army condemned the attack on the UNISFA headquarters, accusing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of carrying out the bombing, but the latter denied involvement.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for accountability for those responsible for the deadly attacks without attributing responsibility to a specific party, but considered the attack on peacekeeping mission sites to amount to a war crime.