Sudan - May 2025

In May, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) expanded Sudan’s civil war by launching drone strikes on the eastern city of Port Sudan, which since the start of the conflict has served as the seat of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)-led government and a crucial logistics hub for aid operations. It is the first time the RSF have attacked Port Sudan, targeting critical infrastructure, including the country’s only functioning international airport, the power grid and fuel depots. The attacks risk intensifying the country’s dire humanitarian crisis. The eastward expansion of the war alarmed Red Sea coastal states and analysts warned it threatened greater regional involvement in the conflict.            

Sources: Sudan Tribune, United Nations (1) , ACAPS, Al Jazeera, United Nations (2). National Public Radio