Sudan's military said its drone forces carried out overnight strikes on three Rapid Support Forces positions in North Kordofan state, destroying a command post in the town of Umm Rawaba, a fuel depot near Bara and a logistics hub on the road south to El Obeid. The Sudanese Armed Forces statement, posted on its official channels on Wednesday morning, claimed the strikes inflicted "heavy losses in personnel and equipment" but offered no civilian impact assessment.
The RSF has not yet acknowledged the strikes. Local monitors with the Sudan Conflict Observatory said imagery from Tuesday night showed multiple fires near Bara and damage to fuel storage tanks consistent with precision strikes, while a separate fire on the El Obeid road appeared to have been a vehicle convoy. The observatory said it could not confirm the number of dead or wounded.
The strikes are the most aggressive Sudanese military action in Kordofan in three months and come as the army works to break RSF supply lines feeding its long-running siege of Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan state, where roughly 180,000 civilians remain trapped according to UN OCHA. The Kadugli siege has now lasted twenty-two months and is the longest single-city siege of Sudan's civil war, which entered its fourth year in April.
The wider conflict remains locked in the same geographical pattern that has held since the army recaptured Khartoum in March: the SAF controls the north, the east and the capital, while the RSF holds Darfur and most of the three Kordofan states. UN agencies estimate roughly fourteen million Sudanese have been displaced since April 2023, twenty-six million face acute food insecurity, and a further 33.7 million require humanitarian assistance.
Prime Minister Kamil Idris, whose government formally returned to Khartoum in January, has spent much of the past month appealing to Gulf states for reconstruction financing as well as humanitarian aid. A Saudi-Emirati financing track, separately reported in regional press over the past week, would direct an initial $2.5 billion to rebuilding Khartoum's electricity grid and water infrastructure, but officials in Riyadh have not publicly confirmed the figure.
The famine track is moving in the opposite direction. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification system formally declared famine in five Kordofan localities on May 15, and the UN World Food Programme said on Wednesday that fewer than fifty trucks of food aid had reached Kadugli since the start of the year, against a baseline of around two hundred per week before the siege began.