RSF drone attack on power stations causes major outage in Khartoum

KHARTOUM, May 15 (YPA) – A drone attack launched by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit three power stations in Sudan’s city of Omdurman on Wednesday night, causing widespread electricity outages in large parts of the capital Khartoum, local authorities said.

In a statement, Sudan’s national electricity company said RSF drones targeted the Markhiyat Transformer Station and a distribution station in Omdurman, causing fires and a widespread power outage across Khartoum State.

Civil defence teams were working intensively to extinguish the fires, it added. A technical assessment of the damage would follow to determine the necessary repairs.

The war between the two forces has devastated the country, pushed more than 13 million people out of their homes and spread famine and disease. Tens of thousands of people have died in fighting.

RSF drone strikes on the army’s wartime capital Port Sudan and other areas have plunged most of the country into extended blackouts.

They have also hit water supplies, piling on the hardships and raising the risk of the spread of cholera and other diseases.

Ground fighting continued in southern Omdurman, part of larger Khartoum, where the army was attacking pockets of RSF fighters, army sources said.

Clashes have also displaced thousands of people on the war’s most active frontline in Western Kordofan state.

@E.Y.M