A drone attack struck an area near an international airport in Sudan's capital on Tuesday, witnesses said, one day before the army-backed government was due to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years.

The airport has been shut since fighting erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), leaving vital infrastructure across the capital heavily damaged.

Witnesses told AFP they heard the sounds of drones in central and southern Khartoum and multiple explosions in the airport area from 4 am until 6 am local time (0200-0400 GMT).

One eyewitness in the Al-Azhari neighbourhood in southern Khartoum said he "heard the sound of an explosion and then a drone passed overhead".

A resident in central Khartoum sai

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