After being expelled from the capital, paramilitary forces seem to have initiated a new phase in the civil war in Sudan, which some observers have referred to as a “shock and awe campaign.”
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the army’s adversary, conducted a string of first-of-a-kind drone attacks on Port Sudan in the east of the country just weeks after the army celebrated the retaking of Khartoum.
Power outages have gotten worse as a result of the attacks, and city dwellers are experiencing water shortages.
“It’s a level of power projection within this region that we haven’t seen yet,” says Alan Boswell, the International Crisis Group’s Horn of Africa specialist.
