Rapid Support Forces

Drone Strikes Plunge Sudan’s Capital Into Darkness

September 9, 2025 10:28 am

Drone strikes by Sudan’s powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), struck critical infrastructure in and around Khartoum this week, triggering widespread blackouts across the capital and further straining a nation already battered by civil war.

Local media and witnesses said the attacks late Monday targeted both military and civilian sites, including the Wadi Seidna military zone, the Al-Markhiyat electricity substation in Omdurman, and areas surrounding the Al-Kalakla district, where a military factory is located. The town of Al-Jaili — home to Sudan’s largest oil refinery — was also hit.

Footage circulated on social media showed transformers at the …

Sudan Crisis: Why Africans Should Be Concerned

April 27, 2023 3:33 am

Sudan is boiling at the moment. What started as a disagreement between the President and Head of the Sudanese military forces, General Abdel Fattah al Burhan, and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, has managed to unleash a humanitarian crisis in the country.

Both men had worked together to remove former longstanding dictator, President Omar Al Bashir, taking advantage of the protracted protests by pro-democratic forces demanding a return to elective rule. A transitional diarchy of military and civilian representatives was put together to work out the terms of a new democratic order, however, …