PORT SUDAN: Fighting intensified in southern Sudan’s North Kordofan region on Tuesday as residents in the capital El-Obeid told AFP a paramilitary drone had exploded near an army division headquarters.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been battling Sudan’s army since April 2023 — capturing El-Fasher, the last military stronghold in Darfur, western Sudan, in late October.
The takeover in Darfur was accompanied by reports of mass killings, sexual violence, abductions and looting, which led to increasingly vocal international calls for a ceasefire.
But the RSF victory in Darfur has allowed its forces to turn more attention to the oil-rich south.
One resident in El-Obeid, speaking to AFP anonymously for fear of reprisal, said they saw “smoke rising from the area” after a strike targeting the base of the army’s 5th Division.
