Sudanese paramilitary forces have been accused of having "executed more than 2,000 unarmed civilians" since taking control of the western city of El-Fasher, as alarming reports of atrocities emerge.

El-Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday after more than 18 months of brutal siege warfare, giving the group control over every state capital in the vast Darfur region.

Allies of the army, the Joint Forces, said on Tuesday that the RSF "committed heinous crimes against innocent civilians in the city of El-Fasher, where more than 2,000 unarmed citizens were executed and killed on October 26 and 27, most of them women, children and the elderly".

Local groups and international NGOs had warned El-Fasher's fall could trigger mass atrocities, fears that Yale University's Humanita

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