Sudanese Army Claims Control of Key Highway Linking Khartoum, El-Obeid
The army said the route’s recapture restores troop and supply movement and could ease pressure on besieged el-Obeid, where 500,000 people face shortages.
- On Friday, UN Women reported that women and girls in the besieged city of El-Obeid face a dire choice between daytime drone attacks and nighttime sexual violence while attempting to collect water.
- High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned that civilians have endured 18 months of siege-like conditions as the Rapid Support Forces encircle El-Obeid, replicating tactics documented in El-Fasher.
- According to Anna Mutavati, UN Women Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, women are being "harassed, raped, and subjected to other forms of sexual violence" while trying to fill jerrycans in the city of 500,000.
- Fears of disease outbreaks like cholera are growing across Sudan, where an estimated 12.7 million women and girls currently require gender-based violence support amid the water crisis.
- Funding shortages have forced two-thirds of women-led organizations to close or scale back safe spaces, leaving vulnerable populations without essential services as the war enters its fourth year.
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The army regained control of a strategic highway linking Khartoum, the capital of a war-ridden Sudan since April 2023, to El-Obeid, the strategic city of the center of the country in the paramilitary sights.
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