00:00In the city of El Obeid in Sudan's southern Kodofan region,
00:04hundreds of thousands of people are struggling through exhaustion and heat
00:07as the paramilitary rapid support forces unleash their fiercest assault yet.
00:12Recent attacks have hit the city's main power station and fuel depots and shut down water pumps.
00:19Rapid support forces drones are constantly shelling us and have killed several civilians.
00:25Drones are what we fear most.
00:26When water tankers arrive, we worry the drones will strike them, so we grab the water and run.
00:32We are scared of the rapid support forces drones.
00:37El Obeid hosts nearly 100,000 refugees displaced by violence elsewhere.
00:42At the Al-Ramaniya refugee camp, aid deliveries have dwindled as assault repeatedly heads services across the city.
00:50We are exhausted.
00:51We were displaced from the valley to this location,
00:54and the journey to the city of El Obeid took over a month.
00:57There is no aid supplies.
00:58We are in need of water and food as many of us are suffering from malnutrition,
01:02and we walk long distances for water.
01:06At this camp, nearly 200 families are crammed into fragile shelters
01:10stitched together from straw, torn fabric and sheets of plastic.
01:14Access to water is a major issue.
01:16With taps dry, residents now depend on tanker trucks, wells and a handful of distribution points.
01:22The camp is suffering from a water shortage.
01:25There is no water, and we have to walk long distances to get it.
01:28I walk more than two kilometers daily to bring a single jerrycan.
01:35There is no water.
01:36A single jerrycan costs us 5,000 pounds, and we struggle just to get one.
01:40And the water is of poor quality.
01:42I walk from morning until noon every day trying to get jerrycan, but I find none.
01:46We have no water, no food, no mattresses.
01:50L.O. Bates sits at the crossroads between army-held areas in central and eastern Sudan
01:54and RSF-controlled Darfur to the west.
01:57The UN has warned of a possible ground assault on the city, raising fears of atrocities.
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