A drone barrage against Sudan’s main port city and aid hub has struck cargo facilities, blown up fuel storage tanks, and damaged the airport, in a significant escalation of the two-year-long civil war.
Witnesses reported explosions and fires around Port Sudan after waves of drone strikes began at the weekend and intensified overnight.
Sudan’s army blamed its Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary rivals for the attack, which analysts said marked a “shocking” new escalation of the war.
Cameron Hudson, a senior fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, said: “This is a fundamentally new war. Sudan is now Ukraine. A full-blown drone war on the Red Sea with no corner of Sudan safe from UAE-backed RSF terror attacks.
“No returns, no rebuilding, no reconciliation can possibly occur with drone threats ever-present.”