Sudan Naval Base on Red Sea Targeted in New Phase of Civil War

Smoke from a Rapid Support Forces drone attack in Port Sudan, on May 6.

Source: AP Photo

A major Sudanese naval base was targeted by armed drones, the fourth such raid on the Red Sea coast in as many days, as authorities struggle to tame a blaze at a nearby port that’s crucial to the flow of humanitarian aid.

The Wednesday attacks — the latest salvo in a two-year war between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces militia — targeted the Flamingo Bay naval base, according to two port officials at the scene of the attack. The extent of the damage was unclear.