“Major cities across Sudan, including the capital, Khartoum, and coastal city Port Sudan, have been plunged into darkness after drone strikes hit a key power plant in the country’s east” today, reports Al Jazeera:
Flames and smoke rose from the facility…which is controlled by the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and under attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the ongoing civil war that has ripped the nation apart.
Two civil defense members were killed…while trying to extinguish the fire that erupted after the first strike….rescue workers were injured when a second drone hit as they battled the flames.
“We have seen this many times during the during this current year and the last year. The RSF drones are going thousands of kilometers across Sudan because it is a way to weaken the government and to prove to the population they can’t be protected.”
The attack marks the latest escalation in a devastating drone campaign that has killed at least 104 civilians across Sudan’s Kordofan region since early December. The deadliest strike hit a kindergarten and hospital in Kalogi, South Kordofan, where 89 people died, including 43 children and eight women.
Six Bangladeshi peacekeepers were killed when drones struck their base in Kadugli on December 13.
Two weeks ago, an RSF drone killed 33 kindergartners, then returned to kill paramedics trying to save the children.
The RSF are genocidal kidnappers who have taken over half of Sudan. They deliberately wiped out at least 250,000 people from targeted African ethnic groups in Sudan’s western Darfur region recently.
In January, the U.S. State Department formally declared that the Rapid Support Forces are committing genocide in Sudan. The RSF slaughtered 460 people in a maternity hospital after seizing the city of El Fashir, and killed tens of thousands of people in the city. So many civilians were slaughtered that pools of blood were visible from outer space. Earlier, the RSF militia deliberately shelled a hospital and maternity ward, killing many there. The RSF “fired a missile into a mosque during morning prayers,” reported the New York Times.
