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UN Warns of Deepening Hunger Among Displaced Families in Sudan’s El Obeid

United Nations humanitarians have raised fresh alarm over rapidly deteriorating food insecurity among displaced families sheltering in camps in El Obeid, a major city in Sudan’s North Kordofan state. According to UN officials, more than 100,000 people who have fled ongoing conflict across the country are now living in the city under increasingly desperate conditions, […]

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UN warns of deepening humanitarian crisis as El-Obeid remains under RSF siege

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The United Nations has sounded the alarm over a rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in El-Obeid, a major city in central Sudan that has come under a prolonged siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). As relentless strikes continue and essential infrastructure collapses, civilians inside the city are reporting growing desperation, with food running low

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Sudan’s War-Weary Communities Confront New Cholera Outbreak

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A fresh cholera outbreak is sweeping through war-torn Sudan, killing more than 100 people and deepening the humanitarian emergency confronting civilians already battered by months of armed conflict. The resurgence of the waterborne disease has raised alarm among aid workers who warn that collapsing health infrastructure and restricted access to clean water are accelerating the

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UN Raises Alarm Over ‘Siege-Like Conditions’ in Sudan’s El-Obeid

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El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state in central Sudan, has been under what the United Nations human rights chief described as “siege-like conditions” for approximately 18 months, raising fresh concerns about a potential humanitarian catastrophe in one of the key front-line cities of Sudan’s protracted civil war. A city under pressure El-Obeid has long

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El-Obeid under RSF siege raises fears of a repeat of el-Fasher

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The United Nations has issued a stark warning of a potential humanitarian catastrophe in the Sudanese city of el-Obeid, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have tightened their siege in recent weeks. International observers fear the situation could mirror the atrocities documented in el-Fasher last year, where civilians were caught in a protracted siege

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Human Rights Watch Warns of Imminent Atrocity Risks Around Sudan’s El Obeid

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Human Rights Watch has called on the international community to take immediate action to prevent further atrocities in and around the city of El Obeid in Sudan’s North Kordofan state, warning that civilians in the area face an imminent risk of serious human rights violations. The warning was delivered in an oral statement during an

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