Sudan’s brutal civil war entered a new round of extreme violence this week after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the key city of El Fasher in Western Darfur following a year and a half of siege.

Witnesses and local reports described massacres and executions of civilians by the militia as thousands fled the city. El Fasher was seen as the last holdout in Darfur of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), whom the RSF has been fighting for the past three years in the brutal civil war . Both sides have been accused of war crimes.

Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee, the Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations for Africa, told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that there was no safe passage for civilians to leave.

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