Sudan’s Army Says Paramilitary Forces Struck Civilian Targets

Sudanese paramilitary forces attacked an airport, a warehouse and several civil facilities in the eastern city of Port Sudan in the Red Sea, triggering “scattered explosions,” according to an spokesman for the Sudan Army.

A spokesman for the Sudanese Army, Bergantin. Gene. Nabil Abdullah said in a statement on Sunday that “the enemy”, a reference to the paramilitary group, the rapid support forces, had attacked the port city with explosive drones.

General Abdullah said that Antiëircraft weapons had been able to demolish several drones, but that the attack had “falling limited damage, including a blow to a tank of ammunition at the Osman Digna Air Base, which explosions saved.” No victims were reported.

The air base is a joint military and civil airport, and the flights stopped the duration of the day, according to the country’s civil aviation authority, which said in a statement that “the treacherous attack on the air base in Port Sudan.” On Sunday afternoon, Port Sudan International Airport said in a statement that normal operations had resumed.

It was the first attack on Port Sudan, which has bone that serves as the provisional capital of the country, since the civil war broke out in Sudan in 2023. There were no immediate comments of the paramilitary group, which is known as the RSF

The strike over the provisional capital, which is a hero by the Sudanese army, occurred when the tensions between the two parties in the conflict have increased and the number of civilians in the war has increased rapidly.

An association of doctors accused the RSF on Thursday of killing more than 100 civilians in an attack against Nahud, a city in southern Sudan.

“The horror that takes place in Sudan knows no limits,” said Volker Türk, the UN Human Rights Chief, in a statement on Thursday. He said he had “personally alerted” leaders of the Sudanese Army and the RSF “to the catastrophic Count of Human Rights” of war.

According to some estimates, more than 11 million people have been displaced since the war began and more than 150,000 people killed. “It’s time for this conflict to stop,” Türk said.

Each side blames the other for starting the war.

Four years ago, in 2021, Army leaders and RSF joined to take power in a coup d’etat. However, that alliance soon collapsed, and for more than two years they have been locked in a deadly battle for power that has become the largest war in Africa.

The Sudanese army expelled the RSF fighters of Jardum, the capital, in March, but since the group has declared its own government in the areas it controls.

Port Sudan, once a sleepy city, has become a refuge for civilians fleeing the war and the headquarters of the interim government of Sudan. Until now, it has been saved from the violence that has torn by the rest of the country as the war, which is fed by foreign powers, destroys Sudan.

Sudan has deep gold reserves, almost 500 miles of Red Sea coast and fixed amounts of rich agricultural lands along the Nile River, and some countries have been sending weapons, money or combatants with the hope of profits or strategic advantage.