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The UK will send £5 million of aid to Sudan after the fall of a major city brought scenes of “horrifying” atrocities, the Foreign Secretary has said.

El Fasher, the last major city in the country’s western Darfur region, was seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) this week, leading to reports of ethnically-targeted killings, sexual violence and starvation.

Some 260,000 people, half of them children, are now said to be trapped in El Fasher.

Speaking at a conference in Bahrain on Saturday, Yvette Cooper condemned “atrocities, mass executions, starvatio

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