Sudanese paramilitary troops focused on an airport, a warehouse and various civil facilities in the eastern city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea, creating ‘scattered explosions’, according to a spokesperson from Sudan soldiers.
A spokesperson for the Sudanese army, Brig. Gene. Nabil Abdullah, said in An explanation On Sunday, “the enemy” – a reference to the paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces – had focused on the port city with exploding drones.
General Abdullah said that antiircraft weapons could have shooted a number of drones, but that the attack “had caused limited damage, including a hit on a ammunition depot on Osman Digna Air Base, which caused scattered explosions.” No victims were reported.
The air base is a joint military and civil airport and flights were stopped during the day, according to that of the country Civil Aviation AuthorityWho said in a statement that “the treacherous attack on the air base in Port Sudan condemned by the rebel militia.” On Sunday afternoon, the Port Sudan International Airport said in An explanation Those normal operations had resumed.
It was the first attack on Port Sudan, which served as the preliminary capital of the country, because the civil war broke out in Sudan in 2023. There was no immediate comments from the paramilitary group, known as the RSF
The strike of the provisional capital, which is held by the Sudanese army, took place when the tensions between the two parties in the conflict have increased and the civil death toll in the war has risen rapidly.
An association of doctors accused the RSF of Murder on Thursday More than 100 citizens In an attack on Nahud, a city in South Sudan.
“The horror that unfolds in Sudan has no limits,” said Volker Türk, the Human Rights Chief of the UN, in An explanation On Thursday. He said he “personally warned leaders of the Sudanese army and the RSF” “on the catastrophic consequences of the human rights” of the war.
According to some estimates, there have been more than 11 million people displaced Since the war started and more than 150,000 people killed. “It is ample time for this conflict to stop,” said Mr. Türk.
Each side blames the others for starting the war.
Four years ago, in 2021, the leaders of the army and the RSF came together to seize the power in a coup. However, that alliance quickly crumbled and for more than two years they are locked up in a deadly battle for power that has grown into the largest war in Africa.
The Sudanese army drove the RSF hunters from Khartoem, the capital, in March, but since then the group has declared her own government In the areas that it arranges.
Port Sudan, once a sleepy city, is one Port for citizens flights the war and the Seat of the interim government of Sudan. It has so far been saved from the violence that has been torn by the rest of the country as the war fed by foreign powers, Sudan destroys.
Sudan has deep gold reserves, almost 500 miles from the coastline of the Red Sea and huge amounts of rich agricultural land along the Nile river, and some countries have sent weapons, money or hunters in the hope of a win or strategic advantage.
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