Power supplies were cut on Sunday following drone strikes in the Sudanese town of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state, the national electricity company said, as fighting raged in the oil-rich southern region.
For more than two years, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with Kordofan the latest battleground after the RSF launched an offensive to capture the strategic region.
“The El-Obeid power plant… was attacked by drones, causing a fire in the machinery building, which caused the electricity supply to stop,” the power company said.
Forces aligned with the army announced on Wednesday that they had recaptured several towns south of El Obeid from the RSF.
The Joint Forces – an umbrella organization of armed groups fighting alongside the army – said it had “achieved considerable victories on the ground in the North Kordofan axis”.
In a statement, the group affirmed “progress and control over several strategic areas, including Kazqil, Hamadi, El-Rabash, Habila and El-Dubaibat”.
