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Cairo: Intensified fighting in central Sudan displaced some 2,000 people over the past three days, the UN migration agency said Monday, the latest in a war that has convulsed the country for more than two years and killed tens of thousands.

The International Organisation for Migration said the displaced fled from several towns and villages in the area of Bara in North Kordofan province between Friday and Sunday. Kordofan has been one of two areas, along with the western Darfur region, that recently became the epicentre of the war between the Sudanese army and its rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF.

Attacks in recent weeks in Darfur, where the RSF captured the key city of el-Fasher left hundreds dead and forced tens of thousands to flee to overcrowded camps to escape r

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