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El Obeid

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El O·beid  (-bd) also Al U·bay·yid (l -bd)
A city of central Sudan southwest of Khartoum. Founded in the 1820s, it is an important transshipment center. Population: 393,000.
El Obeid [ɛl əʊˈbeɪd]
n
(Placename) a city in the central Sudan, in Kordofan province: scene of the defeat of a British and Egyptian army by the Mahdi (1883). Pop.: 228 096 (1993)
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The two trucks on contract to the World Food Programme (WFP) carrying food items from El Obeid to El Daein were carjacked on September 17 by gunmen about80 kilometres from Al Deain, South Darfur.
WFP suspends humanitarian activities in South Darfur locality by Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
The expelled organizations were coping with at least 40 per cent of all the humanitarian help," said Menegazzo, the apostolic administrator of El Obeid, the Sudanese diocese, which covers Darfur.
Relieve Darfur by Presbyterian Record
Now 23, Dr Murahid is practising medicine in the Sudan desert city of El Obeid.
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