Another severe humanitarian crisis is looming in the Sudanese civil war. On Friday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva that the signs of a human rights catastrophe were unmistakable. He called on the international community to take immediate action. The background to this warning is the strategic city of Al-Obeid in the state of North Kordofan, where the RSF militia and the Sudanese army are engaged in fierce fighting.