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Critical Threats (AEI) · United States · RSF encircles El-Obeid: 563,000 civilians trapped, US and UN issue formal warnings
Maps RSF's operational perimeter around North Kordofan, the Sudan-Libya border seizure, and El-Obeid's strategic significance as the last major SAF-held city in western Sudan — its fall would end the SAF's western position and complete RSF's dominance of Darfur and Kordofan.
“El-Obeid is the last major SAF-held city in North Kordofan; its fall ends the SAF's western position.”