Drones hit army base in Port of Sudan

DRONES struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan yesterday, officials said, the third straight day the Sudanese army-aligned government’s seat of power has come under attack.

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The strikes come a day after the country’s main fuel depot was hit, causing a massive blaze just south of the eastern city which had until the weekend been considered a safe-haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people fleeing the two-year war.

A witness reported loud explosions at dawn and plumes of smoke over the Red Sea coastal city, one blast heard from the direction of the port and another from a fuel depot just south.

One drone hit “the civilian section of the Port Sudan airport”, an airport official said, two days after the facility’s military base was first attacked in drone strikes the army blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The RSF has not said it was behind the drone attacks.

All flights were grounded at the war-torn country’s main international port of entry, the source added.