The power supply was cut on Sunday following drone strikes in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state, the national electricity company said, as fighting raged in the oil-rich southern region.<\/p>\n
Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with Kordofan the latest battleground after the RSF launched an offensive to seize the strategic region.<\/p>\n
“El-Obeid power station… was attacked by drones, leading to a fire in the machinery building, which led to a halt in the electricity supply,” the electricity company said.<\/p>\n
Army-aligned forces had announced on Wednesday that they had retaken several cities south of El-Obeid from the RSF.<\/p>\n
The Joint Forces — an umbrella organisation of armed groups fighting alongside the army — said they had “achieved sweeping field victories in the North Kordofan axis”.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the group affirmed “progress and control over several strategic areas, key among which are Kazqil, Hamadi, El-Rabash, Habila and El-Dubaibat”.<\/p>\n
It said those areas had been “cleared of rebel militia (RSF) elements after inflicting many losses on them in lives and military equipment”.<\/p>\n
A source in the Sudanese army told AFP that “this progress will open up the road between El-Obeid and Dilling” — a city in South Kordofan state controlled by the army and besieged by the RSF.<\/p>\n
According to a UN-backed report, Dilling is in the throes of famine.<\/p>\n
The army source added that government forces in Dalama to the south had cleared a path to Dilling and entered it.<\/p>\n
Since mid-December, some 11,000 people have been displaced from North and South Kordofan states, according to the UN’s International Organization for Migration.<\/p>\n
Since the start of the war, more than 11 million people have been displaced internally and across Sudan’s borders, many of them seeking shelter in underdeveloped areas with a lack of nutrition, medicine and clean water.<\/p>\n
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