The air battle intensified in El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state in central Sudan. On Saturday, November 8, a Sudanese army anti-aircraft battery shot down a Chinese-made drone piloted by the Rapid Support Forces (FSR). Paramilitary Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, known as “Hemetti”, who recently captured El-Fasher in blood after more than two years of siege, said they were now preparing an attack on the town of El-Obeid, part of which is in their vicinity.
The city – the sixth largest in the country – is strategically located between the Nile Valley and Darfur, which is its entry point. It is around it that most of the fighting is now concentrated, as well as in the rest of the Kordofan region – all the way to the border with South Sudan. The province has been a frontline between the Sudanese army and RSF paramilitaries since a military counteroffensive in February.
After the fall of El-Fasher – the Sudanese army’s sole stronghold in Darfur – two rival generals, Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman Al-Bourhane and “Hemetti”, wanted to control Kordofan – half the size of France – and its resources.
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