A displaced Sudanese woman who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces, rests in the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on October 28th. Photograph: STR/AFP via Getty Images
Sudanese paramilitary forces beat and shot men fleeing from a long-besieged city in Darfur after capturing it, according to an account from an escapee corroborated by statements from aid officials, satellite images, and unverified social media videos.
As El Fasher, the Sudanese army’s last significant holdout in the western region of Darfur, fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday, Ikram Abdelhameed and her three children and grandson were among thousands of civilians trying to leave.
Her account, in an audio recording obtained by Reuter
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