Thousands of people are feared to have been murdered in the western Sudanese city of el-Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized it.

El-Fasher fell on Sunday after 18 months of RSF siege , which blocked the entry of food and essentials for hundreds of thousands of people trapped inside.

Sudan has been ravaged by a civil war for the past two-and-a-half years, causing an estimated 40,000 deaths and the displacement of 12 million people, the UN says.

Here’s what we know about the reported massacres in el-Fasher:

What happened in el-Fasher?

The RSF seized el-Fasher on Sunday, taking SAF’s last remaining positions in the Darfur region – some 2,000 people had been killed by Wednesday, according to reports.

Some 1.2 million people in

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