Sudanese paratroops have targeted airports, warehouses and several private facilities in Sudan, the eastern city of Sudan, the eastern city of Sudan, in the Red Sea, according to a Sudanese Army spokesman.
Brigg, a spokesman for the Sudanese military. General Nabil Abdullah said in a statement on Sunday about the rapid support force, which refers to the “enemy,” or paramilitary groups. – Explosive drones were targeting port cities.
General Abdullah said that anti-aircraft weapons were able to fire down many drones, but the attacks have limited damage, including “including hits at the ammunition depot at Ottoman Digna Air Force Base, which caused the explosion.” No victims have been reported.
The airbase is a joint military and civilian airport, and flights have been suspended during the day, according to the national civil aviation agency. It said it “condemned a dangerous attack on an air base in Port Sudan by rebels.” On Sunday afternoon, Port Sudan International Airport said in a statement that normal operations had resumed.
This was the first attack on Port Sudan, which has served as the country's interim capital since the outbreak of a civil war in 2023.
The strike against the interim capital, held by Sudanese troops, came as tensions between the sides of the conflict increased and civilian deaths in the war quickly rose.
The Physicians Association on Thursday accused the RSF of killing more than 100 civilians in an attack on the South Sudanian city of Nahud.
“Fear in Sudan doesn't know the boundaries,” UN Human Rights Director Volker Turk said in a statement Thursday. He said he “personally warned” the war against the leaders of the Sudanese military and the RSF's “devastating human rights impact.”
Some estimates have shown that more than 11 million people have been evacuated and more than 150,000 have been killed since the war began. “It's in the past that this conflict stops,” Türk said.
Each side condemns each other for starting a war.
Four years ago, in 2021, the military and RSF leaders gathered to take power in a coup. However, the alliance quickly collapsed, and for more than two years they have been trapped in a deadly battle for lethal power that has grown into Africa's biggest war.
The Sudanese army expelled RSF fighters from the capital Khartoum in March, but since then the group has declared its own government in the area it controls.
Once a sleepy city, Port Sudan has become a haven for civilians who flee the war and seats of Sudan's interim government. Until now, wars supported by foreign forces have spared violence that tore the rest of the country as they destroy Sudan.
Sudan has deep gold reserves, nearly 500 miles of Red Sea coastline, and enormous amounts of rich farmland along the Nile River, and some countries send weapons, money or fighter jets in the hope of profit or strategic advantage.
