Displaced people from Sudan's war-torn North Darfur region described Thursday the horrors they witnessed in the city of el-Fasher and the ordeal of their journey as they fled the city.

Fatheya Mohamed Hussein, a displaced woman from el-Fasher who is now displaced in Al-Affad displacement camp in the Northern State said that there was no longer food or water available in the city.

"There was no longer Ombaz available, cattle hide was not available, we were thirsty and there was no water, they closed the water wells, a tragedy, I swear to God, we couldn't find anything, tragedy after tragedy till we fled el-Fasher" she said.

She also witnessed horrors when the RSF forces took the city.

"There were bodies in the streets, there were decomposed bodies in the streets, I swear to God, there were bodies that dogs were dragging in the streets, " she recalled.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called for a halt to the flow of military support coming to Sudan’s paramilitary fighters from abroad, which a senior adviser to the RSF group's commander said may jeopardize global efforts aimed at reaching a ceasefire.

Rubio said at a news conference late Wednesday that pressures were being applied to countries providing weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, which has been battling the Sudanese army for more than two years.

He decried the humanitarian situation in Sudan and said that “something needs to be done” to cut off the weapons and other support that the RSF is receiving.

The RSF’s recent capture of North Darfur’s capital, el-Fasher, left hundreds dead and forced tens of thousands of people to flee reported atrocities by the paramilitary force, according to aid groups and U.N. officials.

The International Organization for Migration, or IOM, said that nearly 90,000 people have left el-Fasher and surrounding villages, undertaking a perilous journey through unsafe routes where they have no access to food, water or medical assistance.

Adam, a displaced man from el-Fasher said, "They (Rapid Support Forces) held their rifles and said that they have the right to kill us, they were searching us heavily even to our underwear.”

“The searching, hitting, humiliation and torture. Some died, others lived, and others were lost", he added.

The war between the RSF and the military began in 2023, when tensions erupted between the two former allies that were meant to oversee a democratic transition after a 2019 uprising. The fighting has killed at least 40,000 people, according to the World Health Organization, and displaced 12 million others. However, aid groups say that the true death toll could be many times higher.

Both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF are accused of committing atrocities throughout the war. Several foreign powers are accused of being involved in the conflict and of providing military support to the warring parties.