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According to the UN refugee agency, over 60,000 individuals have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, which was captured by the paramilitary RSF over the weekend.

Accounts suggest multiple executions and human rights violations as paramilitary forces stormed the city after an year-and-a-half siege marked by food shortages and heavy bombardment.

The flow of those running from the fighting towards the community of Tawila, about 80km (50 miles) to the west of el-Fasher, had grown in the recent days, as stated by UNHCR representative.

Refugees were narrating shocking tales of atrocities, including sexual violence, and the organization was having trouble to secure adequate shelter and supplies for them.

Each child was suffering from nutritional deficiencies, she commented.

Calculations indicate that over 150,000 residents are currently trapped in el-Fasher, which had been the army's last bastion in the western part of Darfur.

The Rapid Support Forces has disputed widespread allegations that the executions in el-Fasher are based on ethnic factors and follow a pattern of the Arab paramilitaries attacking non-Arab populations.

Nevertheless the RSF has detained one of its fighters, Abu Lulu, who has been charged with extrajudicial killings.

The group shared video showing the militiaman's apprehension subsequent to confirmation that he was involved in the killing of multiple non-combatants in the vicinity of el-Fasher.

Video sharing service has acknowledged that it has removed the account associated with Lulu. Uncertainty exists whether he had operated the account in his identity.

Sudan was entered a civil war in April 2023 following a brutal power struggle began between its military and the Rapid Support Forces.

The conflict has resulted in a food crisis and allegations of mass killing in the western Sudan.

More than 150,000 individuals have died in the conflict throughout the country, and approximately 12 million have abandoned their homes in what the United Nations has termed the world's largest humanitarian crisis.

The capture of el-Fasher strengthens the geographic split in the country, with the Rapid Support Forces now in dominance of the western region and a large portion of neighbouring Kordofan to the southern area, and the army occupying the main city, Khartoum, the center and east along the Red Sea.

The two warring rivals had been collaborators - gaining control together in a takeover in 2021 - but split over an internationally backed proposal to transition to civilian rule.