Sudan has filed complaints against Ethiopia with the UN Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council over what Khartoum described as attacks on civilian facilities by drones launched from Ethiopian territory, according to a statement from the Sudanese Foreign Ministry. Khartoum accuses Addis Ababa of siding with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been fighting the Sudanese army for more than three years, leaving the country divided into areas controlled by the rival forces. Ethiopia, for its part, accuses Sudan of supporting rebels in its Tigray region. The attacks exchanged between the two sides have fueled unprecedented tensions between the neighboring countries, raising fears that Sudan’s war could spill across its borders. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry declared that “the terrorist militia’s use of Ethiopian territory to target Sudanese territory constitutes a hostile act that places Ethiopia before international law.” Sudan’s Sovereignty Council, headed by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, had previously reported that more than 180 drones launched from Ethiopian territory had attacked Sudan this year. According to a council report, the attacks killed or wounded around 500 civilians, striking residential areas, hospitals, power stations and fuel facilities. Both sides in Sudan’s war rely heavily on drones, with direct confrontations declining as aerial attacks intensify in the country’s west and south. The United Nations has warned of an increase in drone attacks, which have killed more than 1,100 people since the beginning of the year, including more than 300 in the past month alone. The war, now in its fourth year, has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions within Sudan and beyond its borders, while famine has spread across several areas. Recent attacks on power stations in army-controlled areas have caused widespread electricity outages in Khartoum, Al-Jazira, White Nile and Gedaref states. Reports indicated that around 15 power stations were targeted between October 20 and November 1, while the Emergency Lawyers group announced on Sunday that 15 stations had been targeted in October alone.
