Dhaka, Nov. 4 -- Over 36,000 Sudanese civilians have fled towns and villages in the Kordofan region east of Darfur, the United Nations said, just over a week after paramilitary forces overran the city of El-Fasher.

In recent weeks, the central Kordofan region - a strategic hinge between Sudan's Darfur provinces and the Khartoum-Riverine heartland to the east - has become the latest battleground between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023.

An estimated 36,825 people have fled five localities in North Kordofan between October 26 and 31, the UN's migration agency said in a statement late Sunday. Residents on Monday reported a heavy surge in both RSF and army presence across t...