BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 6. A drone strike on the Sudanese city of El-Obeid killed 10 people including seven children on Monday, TurkicWorld reports via Asharq Al-Awsat.
An eyewitness said the strike hit a house in the center of the army-controlled capital of North Kordofan, which the Rapid Support Forces have sought to encircle for months.
The two sources spoke on condition of anonymity.
Since April 2023, Sudan has been gripped by a war between the army and the RSF, that has killed tens of thousands of people and forced more than 11 million people to flee internally and across borders.
It has also created the world's largest hunger and displacement crises, according to the UN.
Located 400 km away from Khartoum, El-Obeid, the region's main city, lies on a key crossroads connecting the capital with the vast western Darfur region -- where the army lost its last major position in October.
Following its control on the Darfur Region, the RSF has sought to seize Kordofan and recapture Sudan's central corridor to tighten its siege with its local allies around several army-held cities.
Hundreds of thousands face mass starvation across the region.
Last year, the army broke a paramilitary siege on El-Obeid, which the RSF has sought to encircle since.
Drone strikes on Sunday caused a power outage in the city but left no reports of casualties.
Last week, a coalition of armed groups allied with the army said they had retaken several towns south of El-Obeid, which according to a military source could “open up the road between El-Obeid and Dilling” -- one of South Kordofan's besieged cities.
