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MadaMasr · Egypt · RSF encircles El-Obeid: 563,000 civilians trapped, US and UN issue formal warnings
Reads the encirclement as a bid to replicate the Khartoum pattern — besiege, starve, storm — and notes Egypt's quiet concern about refugee flows if El-Obeid falls, given its proximity to the Libyan corridor and the Sudan-Egypt border.
“El-Obeid risks replicating the Khartoum siege pattern: blockade, starve, storm.”