The majority-Muslim southern city, in the Kordofan region, has been under siege for several months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemedti.
The United Nations Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Saturday, regarding reports of the deployment of significant military reinforcements by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) around the city and spoke of an "imminent risk of mass atrocities" in El-Obeid, North Kordofan.
The UN fears a repeat of the scenario experienced in El-Fasher where, last October, the RSF launched an offensive against this major city in Darfur after a 500-day siege, committing massacres and mass rapes, atrocities which presented the distinctive signs of genocide, the UN fact-finding mission found.
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