Sudan’s army has ended the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) siege of el-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan, which has lasted almost two years. The city is an important hub that connects Sudan’s capital, Khartoum,

Sudan's miliary says it has broken a paramilitary group's yearlong siege of the crucial city of Obeid, restoring access to a strategic area in the south-central region and strengthening crucial supply routes in their nearly two years of war.

The Sudanese army says it has broken a near two-year siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the key southern state capital of el-Obeid. The breakthrough came hours after the RSF signed a political charter in the Kenyan capital,