Drone attacks cut power across Khartoum state two years into Sudan war
Smoke billows after a drone strike in Port Sudan on May 5, 2025. The RSF has switched tactics from ground assaults to drone attacks on power stations, dams and other infrastructure in army-held territory.
Drone attacks cut power across Khartoum and the surrounding state, authorities said on Thursday, as Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries pressed on with a campaign of long-distance attacks more than two years into their war with Sudan's army.
The RSF, which has largely been pushed out of central Sudan in recent months, has switched tactics from ground assaults to drone attacks on power stations, dams and other infrastructure in army-held territory.
