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Drone strikes pound Port Sudan, putting aid deliveries at risk

Reuters — Explosions and fires rocked Sudan’s main port city and wartime capital Port Sudan on Tuesday, a witness said, part of a days-long drone assault that has torched the country’s biggest fuel depot, damaging the most important gateway for foreign aid. A massive column of black smoke billowed from the area around the port, …

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Egypt Independent May 6, 2025

Egypt deplores targeting of infrastructure, vital facilities in Port Sudan and Kassala cities

CAIRO, May 4 (MENA) – Egypt has condemned the targeting of infrastructure and vital facilities in the Sudanese cities of Port Sudan and Kassala at dawn on Sunday. In a statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates, Egypt underscored the necessity of preserving the capabilities of the brotherly Sudanese people, …

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Egypt Independent May 5, 2025

Sudan’s RSF conducts first drone attack on Port Sudan, army spokesperson says

Reuters — Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a drone attack on a military air base and other facilities in the vicinity of Port Sudan Airport, a Sudanese army spokesperson said on Sunday, in the first RSF attack to reach the eastern port city. No casualties were reported from the attacks, the spokesperson …

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Egypt Independent May 4, 2025

EgyptAir to operate its first direct flight from Cairo to Port Sudan

The Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation announced that EgyptAir will operate its first direct flight from Cairo to Port Sudan at a rate of one flight a day starting September 1. The announcement was made after the first visit to Egypt by the President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, since the start …

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Egypt Independent September 1, 2023

Third US government-organized convoy reaches Port Sudan

The US State Department on Monday announced that a third US-government organized convoy had arrived in Port Sudan, the latest overland evacuation of US citizens and others amid the crisis in Sudan. The more aggressive effort by the US government to assist those who had been in the capital city of Khartoum came after intense …

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Egypt Independent May 2, 2023