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El-Obeid is surrounded by the RSF: Could it be the next el-Fasher?

· By Marthe van der Wolf
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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.

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