Drone strikes hit a fuel depot, airport and a hotel in Port Sudan, bringing violence to a city that had so far been spared in the devastating civil war.

A series of drone attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces rocked Sudan's wartime capital on Tuesday, igniting enormous fires and causing a blackout in the Red Sea city now at the centre of the two-year civil war between government troops and the Rapid Support Forces.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked the Red Sea city of Port Sudan with drones early Tuesday, Sudanese military officials reported, hitting key targets including the airport