Rone‑mediated attacks from across the Ethiopia‑Sudan border are simultaneously degrading critical infrastructure, inflating civilian mortality, and constraining humanitarian access, thereby intensifying the humanitarian emergency in Darfur and Tigray.

The Sudanese Ministry of Defense documented 70 drone strikes launched from Ethiopia, including hits on New Halfa and Aroma power stations that jeopardised the national grid, while WHO reports that Ethiopian drone strikes in Tigray have killed civilians and pushed the regional health system toward collapse. In Darfur, a report on the one‑year anniversary of the RSF capture of El‑Fasher estimates 6,000 civilian deaths, and the Kalma camp in South Darfur now faces near‑total food and medicine shortages, reflecting the cumulative impact of sustained aerial attacks.

The convergence of security and humanitarian data shows that the same drone campaigns disrupting electricity in Sudan are also limiting the delivery of aid to displaced populations, as seen in Kalma’s famine risk and the 49 % of Sudanese nutrition surveys exceeding WHO emergency thresholds. Parallel attacks in Tigray have depleted medical staff and supplies, linking the WHO‑cited health system collapse to the broader pattern of cross‑border drone warfare that fuels displacement, restricts aid corridors, and pressures both governments to justify military tactics amid mounting civilian suffering.