Fighting in Sudan’s civil war sets ablaze the country’s largest oil refinery

Afire engulfing Sudan’s largest oil refinery north of Khartoum (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data analysed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows.

The attacks around the refinery, owned by Sudan’s government and the state-run China National Petroleum Corp, represent the latest woe in a civil war between the rebel Rapid Support Force (RSF) and Sudan’s military, who blamed each other for the blaze.