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Free Malaysia Today
5 days ago
- General
- Free Malaysia Today
Fires at key Sudan fuel depot ‘fully contained', say civil defence forces
The fires were caused by a drone strike on the fuel depot last Monday. (Planet Labs PBC/AP pic) PORT SUDAN : Sudan's civil defence forces said on Sunday they had 'fully contained' fires that erupted at the main fuel depot and other strategic sites in Port Sudan – the seat of the army-backed government which has come under drone attacks blamed on paramilitaries over the past week. In a statement posted on the force's Facebook page, civil defence director Osman Atta said the fires – involving 'large quantities of petroleum reserves' – were brought under control following an intensive operation using 'foam materials' and a 'meticulously executed plan'. The fires caused by a strike on the fuel depot last Monday had spread across 'warehouses filled with fuel', the Sudanese army-aligned authorities said, warning of a 'potential disaster in the area'. The Red Sea port city, which had been seen as a safe haven from the devastating two-year conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, has been hit by daily drone strikes since last Sunday. The long-range attacks have damaged several key facilities, including the country's sole international civilian airport, its largest working fuel depot and the city's main power station. A military source told AFP on condition of anonymity on Saturday that air defences in the towns of Jebeit and Sinkat – around 120km west of Port Sudan – shot down two drones that had been targeting facilities in the area. Witnesses also reported on Sunday drone strikes targeting the airport in Atbara, a city in the northern state of River Nile. Port Sudan is the main entry point for humanitarian aid into Sudan and UN chief Antonio Guterres warned the attacks 'threaten to increase humanitarian needs and further complicate aid operations in the country', his spokesman said. More than two years of fighting have killed tens of thousands of people and uprooted 13 million in what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Jordan Times
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Jordan Times
Drone strikes rock Port Sudan in third day of attacks
This handout satellite photo obtained from Planet Labs PBC and dated May 6, 2025, shows smoke billowing from a fuel storage depot after a strike on Port Sudan (AFP photo) PORT SUDAN, SUDAN, May 6, 2025 — Drones struck the airport and cut power across Port Sudan on Tuesday, officials said, the third straight day the army-aligned government's seat of power has come under attack. The strikes, which also targeted an army base, come a day after Sudan's main fuel depot was hit, causing a massive blaze just south of the eastern city which had until Sunday been considered a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people fleeing the two-year AFP correspondent reported loud explosions at dawn and plumes of smoke over the Red Sea coastal city, one from the direction of the port and another from a fuel depot just drone hit "the civilian section of the Port Sudan airport", an airport official said, two days after the facility's military base was first attacked in drone strikes the army blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support RSF has not claimed the attacks, about 650 kilometresfrom its nearest known positions on Khartoum's traffic was halted at the country's only airport still handling international civilian flights, the official there drone targeted the main army base in the city centre, an army source said, with witnesses reporting a major hotel hit sites are near the residence of army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who has been at war with his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, the RSF commander, since April 2023.A third drone hit a fuel depot near the southern port in the densely populated city centre, where the UN, aid agencies and hundreds of thousands of displaced people have relocated from also hit Port Sudan's main power substation causing a city-wide blackout, the national electricity company at airport AFP photos showed thick black smoke billowing over the were no immediate reports of in the city's north reported anti-aircraft fire from a military base."Yesterday and today just confirm to us that this war will follow us no matter where we go," said Hussein 64-year-old sought refuge in Port Sudan more than a year ago, fleeing RSF attacks on his hometown in Al-Jazira, about 1,000 kilometres petrol stations across Port Sudan, most of them out of service, queues of cars stretched for more than a kilometreas drivers scrambled to fill their army source said strikes had also targeted airport fuel chief Antonio Guterres said the attacks were a "worrying development threatening the protection of civilians and humanitarian operations".Nearly all humanitarian aid into Sudan, where famine has been declared and nearly 25 million people suffer dire food insecurity, arrives through Port RSF has increasingly relied on drones since losing territory including nearly all of Khartoum in war has killed tens of thousands of people, uprooted 13 million and created the world's largest hunger and displacement crises. The United Nations said Tuesday it is "gravely concerned" by the growing numbers of Sudanese refugees fleeing from the western Darfur region to neighbouring Chad, with nearly 20,000 people arriving in the past two weeks alone.
