A drone launched by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces targeted Khartoum airport Monday and was shot down before impact, ABC News reported, briefly interrupting flights at an airport whose reopening had become a symbol of normal life returning to the capital. [1]

Friday's paper said Sudan's Year Four had become a bandwidth story as the Quad track stayed empty; Saturday adds the infrastructure receipt.

The National reported the UAE rejecting Sudanese allegations that it orchestrated drone strikes on Khartoum's airport and military installations from Ethiopia, calling them unfounded propaganda, while Ethiopia also denied involvement. [2]

That accusation chain is what a losing mediation track looks like: instead of a Quad statement, the week produces airport claims, fuel and military-site strikes, and regional denials.

The war has displaced millions and now turns repaired infrastructure back into targets; diplomacy is not absent because no one can name a plan, but because the battlefield keeps writing faster documents.

-- LUCIA VEGA, Sao Paulo