This is as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitaries pressed on with a campaign of long-distance attacks more than two years into their war with Sudan's army.

The RSF, which has largely been pushed out of central Sudan in recent months, has switched tactics from ground assaults to drone attacks on power stations, dams and other infrastructure in army-held territory.

Drones struck Khartoum state on Wednesday night, the Sudanese Electrical Company said in a statement. Staff were trying to put out large fires and assess and repair the damage, it added.

The war between the two forces has devastated the country, pushed more than 13 million people out of their homes and spread famine and disease. Tens of thousands of people have died in fighting.

RSF drone strikes on the army's wartime capital Port Sudan and other areas have plunged most of the country into extended blackouts.

They have also hit water supplies, piling on the hardships and raising the risk of the spread of cholera and other diseases.

--Reuters--