El-Obeid under siege by RSF: Could this be Sudan’s next el-Fasher?

Half a million people are trapped in the Sudanese city of el-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group tries to enforce its dominance over the Kordofan and Darfur regions during a civil war that has wrought devastation on the country for three years.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has warned of an impendi...