Sky News tours besieged El Obeid, revealing RSF drone strikes on hospitals and power
The Sky News segment is an on-the-ground report from El Obeid, North Kordofan, a strategically vital SAF-controlled city that endured a prolonged RSF siege (lifted February 2025 but followed by renewed partial encirclement and attacks). Reporter Stuart Ramsay travels the final dangerous stretch of the supply road, vulnerable to RSF surveillance drones that target military, fuel and aid trucks. The piece focuses on the humanitarian toll: a maternity hospital and premature-baby incubators running entirely on solar panels after power-station transformers were destroyed; a massive displacement camp housing tens of thousands of women and children from Darfur and Kordofan with rampant malnutrition; and El Obeid Teaching Hospital, the region’s largest, operating with intermittent generators, no water in the morgue, and only four of eight fridges working. Personal stories include a widow who gave birth in a makeshift camp room after her husband was killed, a man wounded by a stray bullet, and doctors describing staff risking their lives to reach the hospital during attacks. The report ends at the morgue and cemetery, underscoring daily funerals and the war’s relentless cycle from birth to death. Sourcing is primarily firsthand observation and named or visibly interviewed Sudanese doctors, nurses, patients and displaced civilians, supplemented by graphics of blackened fuel tankers and drone debris on the hospital roof. No anonymous officials or external experts appear; the narrative thread is the city’s defiance of capture amid collapsing infrastructure and the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Source: Sky News
