SAF repels several RSF attacks on the city between April 15 and May 23
RSF fully besiege El Obeid by May 30
By July, RSF come under of control the southern and western parts of the city, along with the El Obeid airport
By September, the Sudanese Armed Forces recaptured the city
Belligerents
Sudanese Armed Forces
18th Division "Camel Forces"[1][2]
5th Infantry Division
North Kordofan Police[3] El Obeid Resistance Committee
Rapid Support Forces
Commanders and leaders
Fadlallah al-Tom Faisal Alhassan[4] Ahmed Ali[3]
Unknown
Casualties and losses
31+ military killed[5] 20+ police killed[6]
Unknown
Hundreds of civilians killed
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War in Sudan (2023–present)
Prelude
War in Darfur
Sudanese revolution
2021 Sudanese coup d'état
Battles
Khartoum
Khartoum airport
Laboratory crisis
Yarmouk airstrike
Darfur campaign
Geneina
Nyala
El Fasher
Zalingei
Kutum
Kabkabiya
Merowe
El Obeid
Kadugli
Wad Madani
Babanusa
War crimes
Ardamata
Mayo shelling
Masalit massacres
Misterei
Humanitarian crisis
Refugee crisis
Forced deportation of Eritreans
Evacuation of foreign nationals
France [fr]
India
Germany
Other
Timeline
2023
2024
Treaty of Jeddah (2023)
The siege of El Obeid was a siege in El-Obeid, North Kordofan, Sudan, during the 2023 Sudan conflict. The battle began on April 15, and saw the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) capture the El Obeid airport from the Sudanese Army contingent in the city. Throughout April and May, the Sudanese Army repelled several RSF assaults on the city, although by May 30, the RSF fully surrounded the city and laid siege to it.
^"فرقة الهجانة التابعة للجيش السوداني تعلن سيطرتها على مواقع الدعم السريع في مدينة الأبيض". YouTube.
^"30 قتيل على الأقل في اشتباكات الجيش والدعم السريع بشمال كردفان". 20 April 2023.
^ ab"Sudan's besieged el-Obeid running out of food, water and fuel".
^"Major General Faisal Alhassan with soldiers celebrating the 69th anniversary of SAF".
^"اشتباكات مدينة الأبيض: 42 ضحية وتعزيزات لـ"الدعم السريع"". 4 May 2023.
^"Countries call for Eid ceasefire in Sudan as fighting continues".
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