Barbara Plett-Usher
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155 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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I should say, as we've reported before, that the RSF has admitted there were some violations in al-Fasher, but it says the scale of them were wildly exaggerated by its enemies.
It adds to the calls for criminal investigations, for monitoring, for eventually using the bodies that do international accountability, such as the International Criminal Court, to try to bring people to book for what has happened.
And the other thing it does is it also strengthens calls for some sort of civilian protection mechanism.
an international protection force, especially as the RSF does appear to be preparing to launch an invasion of another city, the strategic city of al-Obaid in central Sudan, which has led to lots of international expressions of concern that there could be more civilian killings.
The RSF does appear to be preparing to launch an invasion of this other city, the south-central city of El Obeid, which is at a strategic transport and location junction.
It has essentially had the city under siege for a large part of the war, but it has increased drone strikes in recent months, and it has started to mass troops there.
al-Obaid is different than al-Fasher in the sense that the local population there is not one major ethnic group that the RSF sees as an enemy, which it did in al-Fasher.
There's people from all over Sudan in al-Obaid.
But nevertheless, the increase in drone strikes have really been targeting things like fuel and water and power and supply trucks.
So there's a humanitarian crisis.
I was speaking to somebody whose family is in Al Ubaid and I said, are they preparing to flee if the RSF looked like it was actually going to be able to launch a ground invasion?
She said, not really.
She said the feeling in Al Ubaid is they don't believe the RSF will be able to come in by ground.
But also, I think just the effort of leaving is huge.
If you manage to get to another so-called safe city, rent is just over the top.
Displacement camps are not a place you want to be.
About 200,000 people in Al Ubaid are already displaced.
So people are quite reluctant to move.
One of the things he said all along is that he wants to show solidarity and support the morale of people who are on the ground, the people who are victims of the outbreak and who could become victims of the outbreak, but also the health response there.
So that is one of the reasons he has gone.
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