On Tuesday, drone strikes targeted the Sudanese Army headquarters in the city of Shendi, Nile State, which has remained relatively untouched by the ongoing conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, according to Reuters.
Witnesses told Reuters that drones specifically targeted the military headquarters in Shendi. The army has not yet commented on these reports concerning the military base in the city, located north of Khartoum.
Sudanese media reported that the Third Infantry Division’s ground defenses in Shendi successfully shot down three drones attempting to target military headquarters.
Local newspaper Al-Taghyeer reported that the first drone aimed at an airstrip near the Shagalwa area but caused no damage. The newspaper also stated that ground defenses intercepted two more drones, one inside the division’s headquarters in Shendi and another outside the base.
Previously, on April 9, drones bombed the Security and Intelligence Service headquarters in the city of Qadarif, about 450 kilometers east of Khartoum, and also targeted the Second Division of the army in the Al-Faw area.
On April 2, a drone attack in the city of Atbara, located about 300 kilometers northeast of Khartoum, killed 12 people and injured 30 others during a Ramadan Iftar organized by the Baraa bin Malik Battalion, which is fighting alongside the army.
The “Forces of Freedom and Change” accuse the battalion of being one of the remnants of former President Omar al-Bashir’s regime.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the drone attacks on these cities.
A senior advisor to the Rapid Support Forces, Pasha Tabaq, previously told Al-Hurra that the drone bombings are orchestrated by army leaders intending to eliminate the old regime’s battalions allied with the army.
