One-way drone attacks have killed or wounded ۴۸۴ civilians since February, Khartoum says.
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Sudan has lodged a complaint against Ethiopia with both the United Nations Security Council and the African Union’s Peace and Security Council after a series of deadly drone attacks this year.
In a statement late on Sunday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group of using Ethiopian territory to launch “brazen aggression” against “civilian sites and power stations” in Sudan, resulting in hundreds of casualties and disruptions to essential services.
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The string of incidents “places Ethiopia before international law”, the ministry added.
Sudan’s military has repeatedly accused Ethiopia of aiding the RSF, which it has been fighting in a civil war since April ۲۰۲۳. Ethiopia, meanwhile, has accused the Sudanese military of backing rebels linked to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, a charge Khartoum denied.
The ministry’s statement came alongside a report from Sudan’s army-led Transitional Sovereignty Council that alleged ۷۰ assaults from February ۱۵ to October ۲۷ involving ۱۸۷ one-way attack drones.
The attacks killed or wounded ۴۸۴ civilians and killed ۱۷۶ Sudanese soldiers, the report said, with another ۲۰۰ soldiers wounded.
“Since February ۲۰۲۶, armed drones have taken off from Ethiopian soil … to strike Sudanese cities and civilians,” the report said.
The report identified launch sites at Asosa Airport in western Ethiopia, the Kurmuk-Gizen border area and Bahir Dar airbase in northwestern Ethiopia’s Amhara region.
Last month saw ۲۸ attacks carried out by ۹۷ drones, the report said.
It cited an October ۹ attack on displaced families in Wad el-Mahi, located in Sudan’s Blue Nile region near the Ethiopian border, which it said killed ۳۰ civilians – ۲۶ women and four children – and wounded ۱۰۰.
A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday that he was “appalled” by the impact of drone strikes in Sudan, days after another strike on a market in RSF-controlled territory in Darfur killed more than ۱۰۰ people.
The secretary-general “strongly condemns the escalating drone attacks in Sudan by the parties to the conflict and the catastrophic toll these attacks are inflicting on civilians”, the spokesman said, adding that the strikes constitute violations of international humanitarian law.
