Sudan paramilitaries are launching the second wave of drone attacks against Sudan port, the managers say

Sudan's most powerful paramilitary force struck goals in the city of Port Sudan early Tuesday morning, Sudanese military officials said the second attack on the government's siege of power in recent days.

There was no immediate report of victims or confirmation of the extent of the damage.

Two military sources told the anonymity Associated Press that the Sudan fast support paramilitary forces (RSF) struck early on Tuesday. Online images have shown swollen smoke clouds.

By visiting the southern part of the port where he declared that the fuel tanks had been hit, the Minister of Sudan, Khalid Aleiser, condemned the United Arab Emirates (water), accusing him of armed the RSF.

“We will continue our legitimate battle,” he said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates published a declaration on Sunday after hitting the City of the Red Sea, condemning “the targeting of vital civil facilities and critical infrastructure” at Port Sudan and Kassal and denouncing attacks as “a blatant violation of international humanitarian law”.

An official of the Ministry of Water Affairs firmly rejected the allegations according to which it is involved in the Sudan War, saying to Euronews: “The United Arab Emirates have already indicated that it does not provide any support or provides one of the two parties in war belligerent in Sudan.

“We have always urged the two parties to accept an immediate ceasefire, to disengage from hostilities and to restore a civil government independent of military control. We call on all international partners to focus on what matters most: put an end to violence and help the Sudanese people. ”

Ahmed Soliman, principal researcher on the Africa House Africa program, told Euronews that the wave of attacks against the Sudan port represented “a new phase” in the Civil War of Sudan.

“The inhabitant has been very successful in the battlefield since the fall, pushing the RSF out of the center of Sudan and taking up a large part of the capital. We see the RSF intensifying air attacks and seeking to hit areas before, to hit critical infrastructure – fuel deposits, hotels, airport – to make life extremely difficult with civilians and show that the army is not able to provide security in these areas. ”

Until recently, the city had been “relatively without conflict” and operated “as a hub for remaining institutions, the international community and humanitarian assistance,” he said.

Soliman characterized attacks also as being motivated by the RSF “seeking to improve the morale of his strength”.

“But the key reason is that the army has been very optimistic – now (the RSF) is trying to show that the army will not be able to protect and provide a respite against the attacks on the RSF. Without fuel, electricity – it is a very unsightly image, which aims to make the army's strategy to say (the situation).

“They show that they do not need troops on the ground for wreaking havoc and damage – and also that they are clearly not defeated. The message from the army was that they were on the point of victory – although most analysts would have suggested that this was not really the case, and what you have is in fact the areas of control and rooted division. ”

The attacks one day after the highest United Nations Court rejected the Sudan affair Accusing the United Arab Emirates of Vioder the Convention of the Genocide by stopping and funding the RSF. The judges judged that they lacked competence to hear the case.

Although the two parties are signatory to the 1948 genocide agreement, water has a warning in the section which grants its competence to the CIJ, effectively protecting it from the procedure under this clause.

Tuesday's attack disrupted trips by plane, Cairo airport data showing that three flights to Port Sudan were canceled on Tuesday. Meanwhile, satellite images of Planet Labs PBC also show fuel fuel tanks, south-east of the city center of Port Sudan, in a farm belonging to the Sudan National Petroleum Corp.

The RSF did not publish a statement on the attack.

Until Sunday, Port Sudan, which is about 800 kilometers east of Khartoum, had been considered a safe refuge for displaced people and those who fled the destruction of the war.

The war began in April 2023, after the tensions between the Sudanese army and the RSF broke out in Khartoum and quickly spread beyond the capital.

The estimates of the number killed in the conflict vary considerably, from 24,000 to 150,000. Some 13 million people were forced to flee their homes, including 4 million who left the country.

Parties of Sudan suffer from famine, with about half of the population – nearly 25 million people – knowing acute food insecurity, according to to the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights (OHCHR).

THE IPC Famine Examination Committee Confirmed the famine in at least five areas, while five other areas were to succumb to famine between December 2024 and May 2025, said the OHCHR.

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