Sudan army announces withdrawal from el-Fasher, UN warns of RSF atrocities

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47% : Sudan's army chief, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has announced the withdrawal of his soldiers from their last stronghold in Darfur, as the United Nations issued a stark warning over reports of "atrocities" by the paramilitary group now in control of the city of el-Fasher. Al-Burhan's announcement came late on Monday, a day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the main Sudanese army base in el-Fasher and claimed victory there.
45% : UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher also expressed "deep alarm" at the reports of civilian casualties and forced displacement in el-Fasher. "Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped and terrified - shelled, starving and without access to food, health care or safety," he said in a statement.
45% : The UN's International Organization for Migration said that more than 26,000 people had fled their homes as of Monday, retreating to rural areas and the overwhelmed nearby town of Tawila.
40% : The UN Human Rights Office, meanwhile, said that RSF fighters reportedly carried out atrocities in el-Fasher, including "summary executions" of civilians trying to flee their attacks, "with indications of ethnic motivations for killings".
40% : Before Sunday's attack, there were 260,000 civilians, half of them children, trapped in el-Fasher, according to the UN children's agency.
35% : The conflict has been marked by gross atrocities, including ethnically motivated killings and rape, according to the UN and rights groups.
31% : Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said the "risk of further large-scale, ethnically motivated violations and atrocities in el-Fasher is mounting by the day".
30% : UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the developments represent a "terrible escalation in the conflict" and that "the level of suffering that we are witnessing in Sudan is unbearable".

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