The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforces a de facto split in the nation.

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.

SUDANESE paramilitary forces have seized a key military base in the army’s last stronghold in western Darfur, killing dozens of civilians and destroying vital infrastructure, aid and medical groups said today.

Sudan's civil conflict has left millions of people displaced and at risk of hunger and famine. In the capital Khartoum, Nawal Al-maghafi witnesses the toll the violence has taken on families, and meets children whose young lives have been forever shaped by the war.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped amid an escalation of fighting in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Sunday.

At Silik camp in Korma, west of Garni and on the way down to Tawila – about 45 minutes away from it – soldiers stopped their cart again, detaining passengers, including women and children, and extorting “ticket money” from people to transfer them in RSF vehicles instead.

The fall of el-Fasher would cement the RSF's control of the west and reinforces a de facto split in the nation.

South Sudanese children separated from their parents in deportations from the capital of Sudan, Khartoum, have been reunited with their families in South Sudan, according to media reports. At least 71 children have been reunited with their families in the South Sudan town of Renk,