Sudan said late on Sunday that it had filed formal complaints against Ethiopia with the UN Security Council and the African Union's Peace and Security Council over drone attacks it says were launched from Ethiopian territory, Anadolu Agency reported. The filing takes Khartoum's accusations to the world's two most senior security bodies for the first time in this dispute.

Source: Anadolu Agency, via EuropeSays, Nov 2

Sudan's foreign ministry said the attacks targeted civilian sites and electricity stations in several Sudanese states, causing civilian casualties and disrupting essential services. In its statement, carried by Africa Press, the ministry said it had submitted documents that it maintains show the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) using Ethiopian territory to launch explosive-laden and missile-equipped drones against civilian facilities and vital infrastructure. The ministry described the alleged use of Ethiopian territory as a hostile act and accused Addis Ababa of violating the UN Charter. These are Sudan's allegations; they have not been independently verified.

Source: Africa Press (Sudanese foreign ministry statement), Nov 1

The complaints followed a fresh wave of drone attacks that Sudan says targeted 13 electricity stations in Khartoum, Al-Jazira, Sennar and Al-Qadarif since last Monday, Anadolu reported. The ministry called on Ethiopia to halt what it called hostile actions and urged the international community to hold the RSF accountable.

A 70-attack report, and what Khartoum is demanding

A report released on Sunday by the advisory council of Sudan's army-led Transitional Sovereignty Council accused Ethiopia of allowing 70 drone attacks to be launched from its territory between February 15 and October 27, involving 187 one-way attack drones and 82 munitions fired from strategic drones, Abay Times reported. The report named three launch areas — Asosa airport in western Ethiopia, the Kurmuk-Gizen border area and Bahir Dar air base — and put its official toll at 484 civilians killed or wounded, 176 Sudanese soldiers killed and 200 more wounded. Awaaz Punjab has not independently verified the report's figures.

Source: Abay Times, Nov 1

The report also claimed that a flight computer recovered from a long-range drone downed over Damazin on September 20, and wreckage it attributes to Turkish-made Bayraktar Akinci drones, support its case — claims presented as Sudanese evidence, not as independently confirmed findings. Khartoum demanded an immediate halt to launches, the closure of the named sites and the dismantling of a camp at Mengi that it describes as an RSF training site, said it was ready to hand evidence and wreckage over for independent verification, and reserved what it called its right to self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter, Abay Times reported.

Ethiopia has denied the allegations and said it respects Sudan's sovereignty, Anadolu reported. News Central TV reported that Ethiopia also counters that Khartoum supports Tigrayan rebels — an assertion Sudan rejects. There was no immediate fresh Ethiopian response to Sunday's filing in the reports.

Source: News Central TV, Nov 1

The filing is a clear step up from October 30, when Sudanese officials first laid out the drone-launch accusations at a Khartoum briefing and called on the international community to respond. What happens next rests with the two councils: neither body had announced any action on the complaints in the reports available at the time of publication.