News Center — The conflict in Sudan, ongoing since 2023, continues to generate an escalating humanitarian crisis, with fighting expanding between the army and the Rapid Support Forces across multiple states, the deterioration of basic services, and rising violations against civilians amid the absence of political solutions to end the conflict.

The United Nations renewed its warnings yesterday, Friday, July 3, of an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Sudan. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights stated that the indicators coming from El Obeid are clear and unambiguous, and that a new human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan—this time in the strategically important city of El Obeid—calling on the international community to take urgent action.

For its part, the Fact-Finding Mission affirmed that it has documented patterns of summary executions, torture, and sexual violence across Kordofan, stressing that the large-scale atrocities that occurred in Zamzam and El Fasher in Sudan last year must not be allowed to be repeated.

The UN also called for pressure on the Rapid Support Forces to stop targeting civilians, noting that the shortage of clean water has reached a critical level in El Obeid, and that civilians have been subjected to siege-like conditions for 18 months in North Kordofan amid ongoing drone attacks.

In recent weeks, the Rapid Support Forces have intensified their aerial attacks on El Obeid, targeting civilian infrastructure, electricity and fuel facilities, and the highway leading out of the city, while deploying military reinforcements—reminiscent of scenes before the attack on El Fasher in North Darfur in October 2025.

It is worth noting that earlier UN estimates had revealed the deaths of more than 6,000 people in the first three days of El Fasher's fall, and Western countries have warned of the risk of similar atrocities should El Obeid fall.