A United Nations team has described Sudan’s el-Fasher as a “crime scene” after gaining access to the largely deserted city for the first time since its takeover, marked by mass atrocities, by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in October.International aid staff visited el-Fasher on Friday following weeks of negotiations, finding few people remaining in what was once a densely populated city with a large displaced population.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listMore than 100,000 residents fled for their lives after the RSF seized control on October 26 following an 18-month siege, with survivors reporting ethnically motivated mass killings and widespread detentions.Denise Brown, the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said the UN staff members who visited the city said there “were very few people” they were able to see during the hours-long visit. Those who remained were sheltering in empty buildings or under basic plastic sheets, with a small market functioning but offering only locally grown vegetables.“We have photos of people, and you can see clearly on their faces the accumulation of fatigue, of stress, of anxiety, of loss,” Brown told Reuters news agency on Monday.The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, warned on Monday of an “unprecedented level” of child malnutrition in North Darfur, with 53 percent of 500 children screened in Um Baru locality this month acutely malnourished.One in six were suffering from severe acute malnutrition, a life-threatening condition that can kill within weeks if untreated.A report released by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab in December documented the RSF’s systematic campaign to erase evidence of mass killings through burial, burnin …
