UNHCR spokesperson Eujin Byun said the RSF entered Al-Fashir after an 18-month siege, triggering accounts of rapes, mass executions and crimes against humanity.
She said a growing flow of people is moving toward Tawila, about 80 kilometers west, and that “all refugee children are malnourished.”
Al-Fashir, the last government stronghold in Darfur, is still home to an estimated 150,000 residents. The UNHCR said it is struggling to provide those fleeing with basic assistance.
The RSF rejected allegations of ethnically motivated killings and attacks by Arab paramilitaries against non-Arab civilians. The group said it arrested one of its fighters, Aby Lulu, accused of carrying out mass executions, and released a video of his detention.
Sudan’s civil war pits former allies who toppled a Western-backed government in 2021 against each other. A dispute between army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a former senior army commander, later ignited nationwide conflict.
The fighting has killed more than 150,000 people and displaced 14 million, according to BBC.
The RSF now controls western Sudan and neighboring Kordofan, while the army holds the capital Khartoum and the Red Sea regions.
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Source: PAP