Humanitarian disaster looms in Sudan as Rapid Support Forces encircle El-Obeid, UN warns

NEW YORK CITY: The escalating conflict in Sudan’s North Kordofan state risks triggering a humanitarian catastrophe on the scale of last year’s siege of El-Fasher. The warning from UN officials to the Security Council on Friday came as drone strikes intensified around the city of El-Obeid, putting an estimated 500,000 civilians at immediate risk. Late last year, Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces captured the city of El-Fasher after an 18-month siege, unleashing an unrelenting wave of ethnic killings, mass executions and sexual violence against civilians.

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