Following the RSF’s takeover of el-Fasher, tens of thousands of people were expected to flee. However, many aid groups and people working in the closest refugee camp in nearby Tawila, have reported low numbers of arrivals, raising fears that many civilians are trapped in the city or were killed.

Sudan medics say scores killed in recent days as new evidence points to mass atrocities by paramilitary forces.

Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

Paramilitary fighters in vehicles, on camels and on foot rampaged through the Sudanese military’s last stronghold in Darfur on Tuesday, killing and detaining hundreds of people in the latest atrocity of a war that has raged in Sudan for over 31 months.

At least 40 civilians were killed and dozens were injured on Monday after a drone strike by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) hit a funeral gathering in El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan. In recent months,

Sudan's ongoing, three-year-long civil war has recently intensified, with civilians increasingly affected by the conflict.

Approximately 460 patients and their companions were killed in a horrific massacre at a hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan, on Tuesday, the UN reports, amid a takeover of the North Darfur capital by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) this week.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday it is investigating a detained journalist, Moamar Ibrahim, on charges related to “defamation” over his coverage of events in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces say they have captured the army headquarters in the city of El Fasher the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the Darfur region in the west of the country.

Sudan's brutal civil war descended further into violence this week, as the RSF reportedly carried out mass killings.