At least 36,000 Sudanese have fled since fall of El Fasher to RSF, says UN agency

International Organization for Migration says displaced are heading to Tawila, which is already sheltering 652,000 displaced people

More than 36,000 people have fled Sudan's Kordofan region since Saturday amid a surge in fighting, the UN's migration agency has said, after the capture last week of the city of El Fasher in neighbouring Darfur by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after more than a year under siege.

The strategic central area between the country's Darfur provinces and the Khartoum-Riverine region that includes the capital, Khartoum, to the east, has in recent weeks become the latest battleground in the two-year civil war between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group.