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More Than 60,000 Flee El-Fasher After RSF Captures Sudanese City, UN Says
More than 60,000 residents have fled El-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city following an 18-month siege, the UN refugee agency reported. Survivors describe mass executions, rape, starvation and widespread destruction of infrastructure, while humanitarian agencies race to provide shelter, food and medical aid to tens of thousands arriving in neighboring towns and displacement camps. The fall of El-Fasher deepens fears of ethnic violence in Darfur and further fragments Sudan along RSF and army lines, worsening what the UN calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis