El‑Obeid, sheltering roughly 200,000 displaced residents after they fled other conflict‑affected areas, has emerged as a primary frontline where the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are reportedly conducting aerial drone attacks in preparation for a ground offensive.
A displaced woman said, “We feel we have arrived here only to die; we are terrified,” according to a BBC Arabic Sudan Lifeline interview.
She added, “Our fate is sealed here; we have no food, no water, and nowhere to turn.”
Another woman expressed extreme fear of the drone strikes.
She further noted that both psychological and physical insecurity pervade the population.
El‑Obeid’s strategic position places it between RSF‑held territory in the west and Sudanese army‑controlled areas in the east.
Located in the oil‑rich Kordofan region, analysts assert that control of this area determines dominance over Sudan’s oil resources and a substantial portion of the nation.
The United Kingdom and its European partners have called on the international community to intervene and prevent a violence scale comparable to that witnessed when the RSF seized the northern Darfur city of El‑Fasher.
They warned, “The world observed the horrifying atrocities in El‑Fasher last year, assessed as bearing the hallmarks of genocide; we must not allow such failures to recur,” according to a joint statement.
A UN report released in February indicated that more than 6,000 people were killed over three days following the RSF’s capture of El‑Fasher.
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