"An attack on a funeral in the key city of el-Obeid in Sudan's North Kordofan state has killed 40 people, according to the United Nations. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing local sources, said on Tuesday the attack in the state capital, which is still being held by the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), occurred without specifying when it took place or who was behind it."
"More than 70,000 people have fled the city and surrounding areas since the RSF's takeover, according to the UN. Witnesses and human rights groups have reported cases of summary executions, sexual violence and massacres of civilians. Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale's School of Public Health, told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the RSF had begun to dig mass graves and to collect bodies throughout the city."
An attack on a funeral in el-Obeid, North Kordofan, killed 40 people, according to the United Nations. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the state capital remains held by government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and gave no details on timing or perpetrators. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appeared poised to launch an offensive as SAF troops gathered to repel them. OCHA warned the security situation is worsening and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities to protect civilians and respect international humanitarian law. Fighting in the oil-rich region has intensified, causing mass displacement, reports of summary executions, sexual violence, mass graves, and thousands trapped in captured cities.
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