Khartoum, Oct. 28 -- Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has announced the withdrawal of government troops from their last remaining stronghold in Darfur, as the United Nations issued a grave warning over reports of "atrocities" by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), now in full control of the city of el-Fasher.

According to Al Jazeera, al-Burhan made the announcement late on Monday, a day after the RSF claimed to have captured the main Sudanese army base in el-Fasher. The army's retreat leaves over 250,000 civilians, nearly half of them children, under RSF control. Aid groups described scenes of chaos, with reports of killings, arrests, hospital attacks, and fighting between RSF and withdrawing soldiers.

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