The United Nations has warned that drone strikes in Sudan over the past couple of weeks are systematically targeting energy and fuel, cutting power, water and medical care for civilians. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown described an intense pattern of drone strikes in a UN News bulletin on 4 November 2026.

A hospital just outside Khartoum lost power — it had no generator or solar panel — so dialysis stopped point blank for 25 people, Brown said. Fuel shortages have produced kilometre-long queues in Khartoum, and strikes are reported as widespread across Sudan, hitting markets and displaced sites.

Power installations hit across the country

UNHO, monitoring local sources, records attacks between 26 October and 2 November on electricity installations including Kadugli, Tendelti, Al-Fao, Al-Managil, Al-Hawata, Mashkoor, Singa, Al-Junayd and Al-Markhiyat, which was hit by eight consecutive drones, plus Al-Dabba and Abu Hamad on 1 November and Aroma and New Halfa on 2 November. The UN Fact-Finding Mission's 28 October report on El-Obeid documents expanding drone warfare and attacks on electricity, water, hospitals, schools and displacement sites, and a partial encirclement of El-Obeid.

Perpetrator attribution for individual strikes varies by source — UNHO attributes the 26–29 October electricity attacks to the Rapid Support Forces, based on local sources — so attribution is stated as reported, not as UN-confirmed for every strike. World Food Programme convoys have been hit seven times this year, according to a 4 November summary of the UN briefing.

Sources: UN News, bulletin, 4 November 2026; UNHO, Sudan attacks on power infrastructure threaten civilians; OHCHR, Sudan: expanding drone warfare and severe repression in El-Obeid, 28 October 2026.