Issaias said, if the illiterate camel herders could do this much damage to a national army 2000 km away, imagine what Abiy Ahmed could do with all his fixed air fighters, helicopter gunships and the the hundreds of UAVs he acquired recently.
Could this be the reason, Eritrea is dismantling and moving away many of the Port Assab's fixed assets to Massawa?)
The “drone war” hides a “proxy war”
Friday, 16 May 2025 , Information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies since 1927
Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – The "drone war" is intensifying in Sudan. The use of armed drones and "suicide drones" (similar to cruise missiles, but cheaper) is primarily the prerogative of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militias, which do not have an air force.
Even the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), although they have combat aircraft, are making extensive use of drones to bomb areas under RSF control.
The latter have expanded the area of action of their devices, targeting Sudan's administrative capital, controlled by the SAF, as well as the country's most important seaport, Port Sudan (see Fides, 6/5/2025).
Previously, attacks carried out by RSF drones were limited to the White Nile, Nile River, and Northern State regions, as well as Omdurman and El Fasher. Among the targets hit were power plants and fuel depots. The expansion of the areas hit by RSF drones raises the question of whether they are launched from within Sudan or from neighboring countries.....
https://www.fides.org/en/news/76367-AFR ... _proxy_war