Sudan Accuses Ethiopia and UAE of Drone Attacks on Khartoum Airport
Sudan's military spokesperson Brigadier General Asim Awad Abdelwahab said at a Tuesday news conference that data recovered from a drone shot down in
Sudan's explicit naming of Bahir Dar airport as a drone launch site, uncorroborated by independent forensics and based solely on Sudanese military claims, crosses from chronic covert-support allegations into named-state direct aggression and signals Khartoum has chosen political escalation over absorption. Both governments have committed to incompatible public narratives, with Addis Ababa's TPLF counter-allegation entrenching rather than defusing the dispute, and formal diplomatic relations are likely to remain suspended through end of 2026. The attribution chain runs through sources with a direct interest in pressuring Ethiopia regardless of forensic accuracy. Khartoum's military capacity for a second front is constrained by the RSF conflict, making the confrontation language a pressure lever rather than an operational signal.