Intense fighting in Sudan's El Fasher has forced more than 26,000 people to flee the city in just two days, according to U.N. migration officials.
The International Organization for Migration on Tuesday urgently called for civilian protection and safe, unhindered humanitarian access. It expressed deep concern over indiscriminate attacks, targeting of civilians, gender-based violence, and ethnically motivated attacks, and dispatched shelter items to Tawila village, a major center for displaced persons.