Drones struck the airport and cut power across Port Sudan on Tuesday, officials said, the third straight day the army-aligned government’s seat of power has come under attack.
The strikes, which also targeted an army base, come a day after Sudan’s main fuel depot was hit, causing a massive blaze just south of the eastern city which had until Sunday been considered a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people fleeing the two-year war.
An AFP correspondent reported loud explosions at dawn and plumes of smoke over the Red Sea coastal city, one 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.
