A drone strike on the Sudanese city of El-Obeid killed 10 people including seven children on Monday, a medical source told AFP.<\/p>\n
An eyewitness said the strike hit a house in the centre of the army-controlled capital of North Kordofan, which the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have sought to encircle for months.<\/p>\n
Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the RSF, with some of the worst violence currently unfolding in Sudan’s strategic southern Kordofan region.<\/p>\n
El-Obeid, the region’s main city, lies on a key crossroads connecting the capital Khartoum with the vast western Darfur region — where the army lost its last major position in October.<\/p>\n
Following its victory in Darfur, the RSF has pushed through Kordofan, seeking to recapture Sudan’s central corridor and tightening its siege with its local allies around several army-held cities.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of thousands face mass starvation across the region.<\/p>\n
Last year, the army broke a paramilitary siege on El-Obeid, which the RSF has sought to encircle since.<\/p>\n
Drone strikes on Sunday caused a power outage in the city but left no reports of casualties.<\/p>\n
Last week, a coalition of armed groups allied with the army said they had retaken several towns south of El-Obeid, which according to a military source could “open up the road between El-Obeid and Dilling” — one of South Kordofan’s besieged cities.<\/p>\n
Since it began, the war has killed tens of thousands of people and forced more than 11 million people to flee internally and across borders.<\/p>\n
It has also created the world’s largest hunger and displacement crises, and been described as a “war of atrocities” by the United Nations.<\/p>\n
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\u00a9 Agence France-Presse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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