The Rapid Support Forces’ current siege of El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, has been, unlike earlier attacks, strategic and methodical. El Obeid has a population of roughly half a million, including between 100,000 and 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs). A senior United Nations official warned on Friday that the opportunity to prevent a major escalation in the Sudanese city of El Obeid is “rapidly narrowing”. In this video, some of the city’s residents talk about the difficult conditions they live under.
EL OBEID JULY 3: The Rapid Support Forces’ current siege of El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, has been, unlike earlier attacks, strategic and methodical. Drones first targeted fuel stations and then electrical generators, effectively making life unbearable for civilians and driving them to evacuate the city.
El Obeid has a population of roughly half a million, including between 100,000 and 200,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) who have already fled violence in other parts of Sudan. “In our assessment, the apparent objective of these attacks is to undermine the basic services that civilians depend on in their daily lives,” one El Obied resident told Ayin.
A senior United Nations official warned on Friday that the opportunity to prevent a major escalation in the Sudanese city of El Obeid is “rapidly narrowing” as fighting intensifies in and around the North Kordofan state capital. 500,000 civilians are at risk and “children are at immediate and growing danger of being killed, injured, displaced, or exposed to other grave violations.”
