Sudan’s army intercepted a wave of Rapid Support militia kamikaze drones targeting El Obeid, Atbara, Omdurman, and Khartoum North on Wednesday, military sources and witnesses said. X
The RSF militias, accused of ethnic cleansing and other crimes against humanity in their three-year-old war against the government, launched drone strikes on the capital Khartoum and other government-controlled cities on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent, witnesses and an army source said.
Medical sources told Sudan Tribune that the RSF drones that exploded in the centre of El-Obeid killed two and wounded six others.
The RSF attack on the capital Khartoum, which was recaptured by the Sudanese army last year, comes after the city enjoyed relative calm for months.
An AFP correspondent in the capital reported a drone attack at 5 am (0300 GMT) along with the sound of anti-aircraft missiles from the direction of the army's Wadi Seidna base, just north of the twin city of Omdurman.
In Khartoum North (Bahri), just across the Nile River, two RSF drones hit a mosque and an electricity transformer in the El-Droshab area, according to an eyewitness.
Witnesses in the northern cities of Atbara and El-Damer, both also under army control, gave AFP similar reports of hearing explosions and seeing drones in the sky.
The RSF militia has seemed to be on the back foot since the army last month pushed them off a key highway connecting Khartoum to El-Obeid, the southern Kordofan region's largest city.
The Rapid Support militia last year consolidated its hold on the vast western region of Darfur, and has since pushed to seize territory in Kordofan and along the southeastern Ethiopian border.
Human rights organizations have accused the RSF of committing crimes against humanity in its campaign to capture El-Fasher, the capital of Darfur, in the fall of 2025.
According to an eyewitness, Wednesday's RSF drone attack "caused an explosion in an electricity transformer" in Khartoum North, where over half a million people already live without power.
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