Sudan’s cabinet counts 14 bombed power stations as army aircraft destroy a Kordofan water plant
Khartoum has filed complaints with the UN Security Council and the African Union over drone strikes on its electricity network. Within 24 hours, Sudanese army aircraft were reported to have destroyed a water station in North Kordofan.
Meeting on 1 November under Prime Minister Kamil Idris, Sudan’s cabinet recorded that in one week drone attacks attributed to the Rapid Support Forces destroyed approximately 14 power stations across eight states — Gedaref, Sennar, Al Jazirah, White Nile, Khartoum, South Kordofan, Northern State and River Nile — causing outages that hit hospitals, water stations and bakeries, Sudan Tribune reported. The same day, drones struck the Al Dabbah and Abu Hamad stations in Northern State, taking both out of service; a civilian was killed at a fuel station nearby. The Council on Foreign Relations conflict tracker logs that incident from AP as a government accusation rather than an established fact. The cabinet also ordered a maximum state of alert and threatened severe punishment for anyone supplying the RSF with coordinates for strikes on infrastructure.
On 3 November a suspected RSF drone hit a fuel station at El Abbasiya in South Kordofan as vehicles queued during a severe fuel shortage, killing at least seven people and injuring 36, several critically, according to local sources cited by Sudan Tribune. The following day, at Um Badr in North Kordofan, a Sudanese army Antonov airstrike destroyed what residents described as a vital water source, killing two women and injuring ten, on the second consecutive day of army operations against the RSF along the North–West Kordofan border. The pattern is not new: in July, the office of UN human rights chief Volker Türk documented 15 drone strikes on El Obeid and surrounding areas that killed at least 45 civilians, recording that drones launched by both the RSF and the army had repeatedly struck markets, schools, fuel stations, water infrastructure and civilian vehicles.
Assessment: The 14-station figure is a belligerent government’s own tally, published by that government, and should travel with that label attached. What makes the week legible is the sequencing: Khartoum lodged complaints with the Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Council over strikes on civilian utilities, then its own air force was reported destroying a water plant a day later. Watch the collaboration offence the cabinet created — “providing coordinates” is an elastic charge in a state under maximum alert, and it is the kind of instrument that outlives the campaign that justified it.