Attacks On Drones Cut Off Electricity In Sudan's Capital City

JAKARTA - The drone cut off electricity in Khartoum, Sudan and its surrounding states.

Meanwhile, RSF paramilitary forces continued to launch long-range attack operations for more than two years in their war with Sudanese soldiers.

RSF, which has been largely expelled from Sudan in recent months, has changed tactics from ground attacks to drone attacks on power plants, dams, and other infrastructure in army-controlled areas.

The drone attacked Khartoum state on Wednesday evening, the Sudanese Electric Company said in a statement reported by Reuters on Thursday, May 15.

Officers tried to extinguish the big fire and assessed and repaired the damage.

The war between the two powers has devastated the country, pushing more than 13 million people from their homes and spreading hunger and disease. Tens of thousands of people died in fighting.

RSF drone attacks in the military capital of the Port Sudan war and other areas have plunged most of the country into a prolonged power outage.

The attack has also attacked water supplies, adding to difficulties and increasing the risk of spread oftensure and other diseases.

Land fighting continues in southern Omdurman, part of the larger Khartoum, where soldiers attack RSF fighters' pockets, army sources said. Clashes have also caused thousands of people to flee on the forefront of the most active war in the state of West Kordofan.

There, the army tried to secure major oil-producing areas and continued to advance to the RSF region in the Darfur region, where soldiers tried to stop the siege in the al-Fashir city, its final remaining foothold there.

The war, sparked by disputes over the transition to civilian rule, has pushed half of the population into acute hunger, according to the United Nations (UN).

Momentum in conflict has repeatedly swung back and forth but no side seems to be winning straight away.