Over 780 civilians killed in paramilitary siege in Sudan: UN

GENEVA, Dec 20 (AFP): At least 782 civilians have been killed and more than 1,100 wounded in a months-long paramilitary siege of the capital of Sudan's North Darfur, a United Nations report said Friday.

Since April of last year, Sudan has been locked in a brutal conflict between the army, led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, leader of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur and home to two million people, has seen some of the war's fiercest fighting as the army battles the RSF to retain its last foothold in the Darfur region of western Sudan.

"The continuing siege of El Fasher and the relentless fighting are devastating lives everyday on a massive scale," UN said.