Sudanese residents gather to receive free meals in Al Fasher, a city besieged by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in Darfur region. [AFP]

The Sudanese army chief said on Monday that it had withdrawn from El-Fasher following a protracted RSF siege, with the UN warning the "risk of further large-scale, ethnically-motivated violations and atrocities in El-Fasher is mounting by the day".

Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab said on Monday it had found "evidence consistent with Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conducting alleged mass killings after capturing El-Fasher, North Darfur, according to satellite imagery analysis".