Sudan: More than 5,500 children displaced by escalating violence in El Obeid in past two weeks

Country: Sudan Source: Save the Children PORT SUDAN, 7 July 2026 – More than 5,500 children are among the 11,000 people newly displaced in the wake of escalating violence in and around the city of El Obeid in North Kordofan, Sudan, with thousands more at risk, Save the Children said [1]. The latest displacement in over three years of war comes amid intensified hostilities around the city, with the UN warning that up to 500,000 civilians are at risk of being targeted in large-scale atrocities and