Outages in Sudan after major drone attack hits power plant

Sudanese soldiers gather after completing a training courses, with the aim of supporting the Sudanese regular army in the Ombada locality west of Omdurman, on December 15, 2025, in the capital Khartoum.[AFP]

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces carried out a large scale drone attack in the country's east on Thursday, a military source told AFP, with strikes hitting a key power station and causing outages in major cities.

Since April 2023, Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions more and devastated infrastructure.