Sudan’s army-led Transitional Sovereignty Council said on Sunday that drones have taken off from Ethiopian soil to strike Sudanese cities since February, citing evidence from downed aircraft, flight data and military records. Its report documented 70 attacks between February 15 and October 27 involving 187 one-way attack drones, which it said killed or wounded 484 civilians, killed 176 soldiers and wounded 200 more, with October alone accounting for 28 attacks.
The report named launch sites at Asosa airport in western Ethiopia, the Kurmuk-Gizen border area and Bahir Dar air base in the Amhara region, and cited an October 9 attack on displaced families in Wad el-Mahi, in Blue Nile State, that it said killed 30 civilians and wounded 100. Sudan said it would file complaints with the UN Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council and reserved its right to self-defence. Ethiopia denies aiding the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary force the Sudanese army has fought since April 2023, and accuses Khartoum of backing rebels linked to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.