Just weeks after the army celebrated the recapture of Khartoum, its foe the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a series of unprecedented drone strikes on Port Sudan in the east of the country. You can have Port Sudan, but you won't be able to govern it, because we will cause a security crisis for you so large that it will be ungovernable'... The paramilitary group has not directly addressed the Port Sudan drone attacks. Some experts see the RSF's bombardment of Port Sudan at least partly as retaliation. He told the BBC it would be surprising if the Emiratis were not helping deliver the drones used in the Port Sudan attacks.