The exact locations and causes of the massive fire and explosions in Port Sudan’s previously quiet city have not been known, despite the country’s civil war’s ongoing quake.
In the city’s immediate vicinity of the country’s largest maritime port, where hundreds of thousands of displaced people have sought refuge, dark smoke came out of clouds.
Residents of the port city reported that attack drones launched by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit a fuel depot and other targets, according to Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan, a reporter from Khartoum, in Sudan.
Residents “believe that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces carried out drone strikes once more,” they claim. They “targeted a fuel depot in the city, as well as the port and the air base,” Morgan said.
The Sudanese army and the RSF conflict has led to the worst humanitarian crisis in history, one that is likely to get worse with these most recent attacks on Port Sudan, where UN and aid organizations have headquarters, as well as army-aligned government ministries.
The Red Sea coastal city’s attacks on Sunday marked a sharp increase in fighting, as ground or air attacks had never been carried out in Port Sudan up until this week.
A drone strike on Sunday caused the city’s only fully operational international airport to be close to the country’s only functioning airport. On Monday, the city targeted its fuel depots. Military sources gave the RSF the blame in both instances.
An army depot and an aircraft depot were destroyed in the RSF-controlled Nyala airport, according to a military source. The attacks were not caused by the RSF.
Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s neighbors have condemned the attacks this week, and the UN has expressed concern.
A dispute over a transition to civilian government sparked the army and RSF’s civil war that broke out in April 2023.
Source: Aljazeera
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