Update: World Leaders Urged To Protect Sudan City El-Obeid From Rapid Support Forces Attack

Today, another Sudanese city stands poised to fall to the RSF: El-Obeid, once known as “Bride of the Sands” a city that for two centuries was a crossroads for trade and culture in Karodfan.  It is a city that matters to the RSF, strategically vital, linking RSF-controlled areas in western Darfur to territory in the east that they covet.

As evidence mounts that up to 500,000 civilians inside El-Obeid are in grave danger—facing the risk of serious human rights abuses—an urgent debate…