Sudan’s Khartoum targeted by RSF drones for third day after airport reopens

Khartoum International Airport concisely reopened connected Wednesday earlier being deed again by drone strikes.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) person targeted Sudan’s superior Khartoum and its main airdrome with drones, a time aft the archetypal rider formation successful 2 years landed successful the metropolis amid the civilian war.

The government-aligned Sudanese Armed Foces (SAF) intercepted the drones Thursday, which caused nary damage, a subject authoritative who spoke connected information of anonymity to The Associated Press said. The RSF and SAF did not instantly admit the attack.

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Witnesses told the quality bureau AFP that they heard 2 drones implicit Khartoum astatine astir 4am (02:00 GMT), earlier explosions went off.

The airdrome has travel nether repeated drone attacks blamed connected the RSF since Tuesday. Al Jazeera’s Hiba Morgan said “both sides look to beryllium stepping up the usage of drones, with the RSF utilizing them present successful the superior Khartoum to people facilities specified arsenic the airport.”

Last week, drones targeted 2 service bases successful northwest Khartoum, though a subject authoritative said astir of the craft were intercepted.

Civil warfare broke retired successful Sudan successful 2023, erstwhile SAF and the RSF, erstwhile allies, turned connected each other, starring to wide warring and devastation crossed the country.

The Sudanese subject retook the superior from the paramilitary unit successful March, but it needed months to repair Khartoum International Airport earlier the section Badr airlines landed a level determination connected Wednesday.

The airport’s reopening has been postponed “under further notice”, an airdrome authoritative told AFP connected information of anonymity.

The warfare successful Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced astir 12 cardinal much and near 30 cardinal radical successful request of humanitarian assistance successful the country, making it the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

The International Organization for Migration and different UN agencies person called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities and extortion of civilians, particularly children, and unhindered humanitarian entree to each affected populations.”

One of hardest deed areas is el-Fasher, the provincial superior of North Darfur province, which has been nether siege for implicit a year. The UN and different assistance groups pass that 260,000 civilians stay trapped successful the city.

“What I witnessed successful Darfur and elsewhere this week is simply a stark reminder of what is astatine stake: Children facing hunger, illness and the illness of indispensable services,” said Ted Chaiban, UNICEF’s lawman enforcement director, successful a statement.

“Entire communities are surviving successful conditions that defy dignity,” Chaiban added.