RSF Drone Strikes Al Dabbah Power Station — Second Attack on Northern Sudan City; 3 Injured, Widespread Blackouts

An RSF drone struck the Al Dabbah power station in Northern State on May 24, 2026, injuring three people and causing widespread blackouts across the city and surrounding district. Al Dabbah, located on the Nile in Northern State approximately 120 km south of the Egypt-Sudan border, had been struck by an RSF drone on March 21, 2026 — killing 6 people and damaging the engineering college and an electricity substation — in what was then described as a demonstration of RSF's 'extended drone range into deep SAF-controlled northern Sudan.' The May 24 strike is the second confirmed RSF drone attack on Al Dabbah within two months, indicating RSF is sustaining and improving its capacity to conduct long-range strikes into SAF's northern rear areas. The power station attack directly disrupts civilian electricity supply in Northern State — one of the few regions of Sudan that escaped ground fighting throughout the war — and contributes to Sudan's cascading infrastructure collapse. RSF has targeted power infrastructure consistently throughout the conflict: the SAF's Sennar Dam system, the White Nile State fuel complex at Kenana, and now repeated strikes on Northern State electrical infrastructure. The Al Dabbah strikes are launched from RSF-controlled positions in the Kordofan-Darfur region, approximately 800–900 km from the target, confirming RSF's operational drone range across Sudan.