A new explosion was reported on Monday, May 5, in the Port Soudan oil deposit on Monday, May 5, provisional seat of the Sudanese government, due to the spread of fire triggered earlier in the day by a paramilitary drone attack.
“The explosion that occurred tonight is due to the conflagration of one of the tanks, caused by the spread of the fire”told the France-Presse (AFP) agency a government official on condition of anonymity, adding that the government had asked for help from Saudi Arabia for sending a fire fighting aircraft. On site, an AFP correspondent reported that “The whole sky has become red” After a detonation that occurred at the end of the day.
The main oil depot in Sudan had caught fire on Monday morning, according to the Ministry of Energy, after a drone attack on the paramilitaries. Sudan has been prey since April 15, 2023 to a power struggle between the army chief, General Abdel Fattah Al-Bourhane, and his former deputy, General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, at the head of the paramilitaries of the rapid support forces (FSR).
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Earlier, the Ministry of Energy condemned a press release a “Terrorist attack” having targeted “The largest fuel storage site in the region”in the east of the country, worried about a “Possible disaster in the area”. No victim was reported after this strike attributed by the ministry to “Militia” FSR.
A conflict that bangs
On Sunday, the paramilitaries had for the first time led a drone attack at Port-Soudan airport, causing the temporary flight suspension.
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The FSRs, which have lost several positions in recent months, are increasingly using drones to strike in depth in the areas controlled by the troops of General Al-Bourhane.
The army, chased from Khartoum by the FSR at the start of the war, had withdrew to the east and had transferred the government’s seat to Port-Soudan, which also houses UN agencies and hundreds of thousands of displaced. At the end of March, Khartoum was taken over to the paramilitaries.
The war in Sudan has made tens of thousands of deaths, uprooted 13 million inhabitants and plunged certain regions in famine, causing “The worst humanitarian disaster” in the world, according to the UN.
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