UN Red Alert for Sudan's El-Obeid

The United Nations issued a red alert and triggered an urgent debate over the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the besieged Sudanese city of El-Obeid.

Aid workers on the ground described conditions as 'terrible' amid relentless drone strikes that have made the city a key battleground between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The RSF stands accused of intensifying atrocities against civilians as the civil war grinds on.

Separately, the UNHCR warned that the wider Lake Chad crisis is nearing a dangerous tipping point, with escalating violence and displacement threatening regional stability.