RSF drones hit Red Sea power and oil nodes as Port Sudan blames Ethiopia

Sudan Tribune reported on Saturday, datelined Haya in Red Sea state, that drones belonging to the Rapid Support Forces targeted the Haya electrical transformer station and a nearby oil pumping station, setting fires and damaging the facilities. The oil installation sits on the pipeline transport route, the outlet said. As of this edition the report is single-outlet; the attribution to the RSF is Sudan Tribune’s, and no RSF claim of responsibility was captured. Separately, Sudan’s foreign ministry urged the international community to act against Ethiopia for allegedly allowing drone strikes on Sudanese power grids and infrastructure from its Assosa air base, framing it as part of a proxy war involving the United Arab Emirates. No Ethiopian response was available. The ministry’s statement references satellite imagery published by Reuters on 10 February 2026 showing an RSF training camp in Ethiopia near the Sudanese border.

The wider picture is documented and two-sided. The UN Human Rights Office said that in the first three weeks of October it recorded at least 306 deaths and hundreds of injuries from drone strikes, attributing them to both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF — a floor of documented deaths over 1–21 October, not an estimate. Sudan Tribune logged two incidents in the same theatre: at least five people killed on 27 October in strikes on artisanal gold mining sites in South Kordofan’s El Leri area, and at least eight women and children injured on 28 October when shelling and drone strikes hit residential and utility sites in Kadugli, the latter sourced to unnamed officials on one side of the war.

Assessment: Two different standards of proof are being asked to carry the same weight here. A training camp photographed in February is not a strike sortie flown in October, and Port Sudan’s merging of the two is deliberate: it converts a hard image into a soft inference and hands the SAF a second state to indict alongside Abu Dhabi. Treat the Haya strike as reported, the Ethiopian base as alleged. The OHCHR figure is the discipline the rest of the day lacks — it is the only number in circulation that names both armies, which is why neither side’s media will lead with it.