Paramilitaries launch first attack on Port Sudan: army

A man inspects the damage on the grounds of a hospital in Khartoum on April 28, 2025. The war in Sudan erupted on April 15, 2023 between the regular army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF, headed by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. [AFP]

Sudanese paramilitaries on Sunday struck Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast, the army said, in the first attack on the seat of the army-aligned government in the country's two-year war.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) "targeted Osman Digna Air Base, a goods warehouse and some civilian facilities in the city of Port Sudan with suicide drones", army spokesman Nabil Abdullah said in a statement.