Al Fasher is now the epicentre of Sudan's unending internal conflict, with the paramilitary RSF raising an earthen wall that has trapped civilians, blocked aid, and reignited ethnic violence in a fight for control.

Tedros Ghebreyesus says over 770,000 children expected to suffer severe acute malnutrition this year

The paramilitary group targeted marketplace and a neighbourhood in El-Fasher city, according to Sudan Doctors Network

Sudan's paramilitary RSF allegedly shelled a hospital in North Darfur's besieged city of El-Fasher and abducted six women and two children from a displacement camp.

A Sudanese medical group has warned of a looming humanitarian disaster in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, amid a complete collapse in the health sector in the war-affected country.

Malnutrition has claimed the lives of at least 63 people, mostly women and children, in one week in Sudan's besieged city of El-Fasher, a health official said on Sunday.

The RSF has encircled the city, blocking all major roads and trapping hundreds of thousands of civilians with dwindling food supplies and limited humanitarian access.

The Sudanese army says it has repelled an attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state.

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces killed eight civilians in an attack on a bunker sheltering dozens in the western city of El-Fasher, a doctor told AFP on Thursday.

Insurgents have been extending their hold over rural areas in the north and on Thursday attacked the fabled city of Timbuktu.