An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan’s central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the U.N. said Wednesday (November 5, 2025), as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive.
The United Nations’ humanitarian office did not specify when the attack took place or who was behind it but said that the situation in the Kordofan region was continuing to worsen.
The war in Sudan, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions more, has spread to new areas in recent days, sparking fears of an even greater humanitarian catastrophe.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the military
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