GENEVA: Tens of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese city of Al-Fashir are unaccounted for, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, raising concerns for their safety after reports of rape, killings and other abuses from escapees. Famine-stricken Al-Fashir was the final stronghold of the Sudanese army in the vast, western Darfur region before it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on October 26 after an 18-month siege. People fleeing the city have described civilians being shot in the streets and attacked in drone strikes.

Women who are fleeing El Fasher in western Sudan are subjected to rape, starvation and deadly bombing, the United Nations reported on Tuesday.

GENEVA: Tens of thousands of people who have fled the Sudanese city of Al-Fashir are unaccounted for, the UN refugee agency said on Friday, raising concerns for their safety after…