(Reuters) -Drones launched by the Rapid Support Forces targeted vital installations in the Sudanese army-controlled Khartoum state on Tuesday morning, including the capital, the first such attacks in months, according to residents and the paramilitary.
The Tasis Coalition of armed groups and political parties led by the RSF claimed responsibility for the attacks that it said were aimed at military and logistical targets.
Khartoum residents said the drones had attacked the country’s main oil refinery, power stations in the cities of Bahri and Omdurman, a fuel depot in southern Khartoum, as well as at least one military base.
The RSF, which has fought a 2-1/2-year civil war with the army, earlier this year carried out a series of drone attacks on power stations and other installations across the country, after being pushed out of central and eastern Sudan.
It has been fighting the army in largely ground attacks in the Darfur and Kordofan regions over the summer, though in recent days the army has ramped up airstrikes.
Tasis said the Tuesday attack was “in response to the criminal targeting of hospitals and civilian facilities in Darfur and Kordofan.” The coalition last month installed a parallel government.
Sudan’s civil war has created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and drawn in several foreign powers, with little progress made in mediation.
(Reporting by Khalid Abdelaziz, writing by Nafisa EltahirEditing by Rod Nickel)
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