GENEVA: The UN aid chief held a phone call Monday with Sudan’s RSF paramilitary leader on hostilities around El-Obeid, and stressed the need for sustained humanitarian access to the city, his agency said. Tom Fletcher spoke to Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the head of the Rapid Support Forces, “to discuss the escalating hostilities in Sudan, including in El-Obeid in North Kordofan,” the UN humanitarian agency OHCA said in statement. Fletcher stressed the need to maintain safe access for humanitarians to reach those in need, as well as safe movement for civilians, it said.

The UN Human Rights Council on Monday passed a motion condemning the escalating violence committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in

UN warns of 'catastrophe' in el-Obeid after RSF atrocities in el-Fasher last year.