Ten days of “brutal” attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have left at least 89 people dead in the western region of Darfur, the United Nations High commissioner for human rights says.

Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, commander of the rival RSF. The fighting has killed tens of thousands.

North Darfur’s besieged capital, el-Fasher, has been under siege by the RSF since May last year.

The recent RSF attacks occurred between August 11 and August 20 in el-Fasher and the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp, Jeremy Laurence, a spokesperson for commissioner Volker Turk, said in a Geneva press briefing on Friday.

“Brutal attacks by the RSF … resulted in the killing of at le

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