The Sudanese city of El Obeid (capital of North Kordofan province, roughly 400 kilometres southwest of Khartoum) is struggling under a rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis, with more than 200,000 internally displaced people having arrived in the first half of 2026 alone, and over 15,000 additional families pouring in since mid-July, according to UN figures cited by Save the Children. Camps on the city's outskirts are severely overcrowded, with more than 100 people sharing a single latrine and water supplies still crippled following RSF drone strikes on infrastructure in June, while food prices have more than doubled over the past year. The crisis is part of Sudan's broader civil war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces militia, which has displaced roughly 11.3 million people — more than a fifth of the country's population — since fighting broke out in April 2023.