Overview
- The United Nations Security Council said on Saturday it is alarmed by RSF reinforcements around El Obeid and demanded the Rapid Support Forces immediately halt their assault.
- RSF drones have struck the city and nearby towns, damaging the main power station, fuel sites and water pumps and forcing hospitals to suspend services.
- Local medics and aid agencies report civilian deaths and injuries from recent drone strikes, including an attack on a fuel station in Kosti that killed and wounded multiple people.
- A coalition of about 29 countries and human-rights bodies warned that an RSF ground offensive could expose roughly 500,000 residents to mass atrocities and urged immediate humanitarian access and accountability.
- The warning draws on past RSF captures, notably El Fasher where UN investigators documented thousands killed, and heightens fears that a new assault would deepen Sudan’s already vast displacement and food-security crisis.