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'Barely anyone left': Sudan's El-Fasher devastated by fighting

Sudanese refugees from Darfur who fled to Birao, in the neighbouring Central African Republic. © Amaury Falt-Brown / AFP/File

Port Sudan (AFP) – Civilians combed through the wreckage of their homes Sunday in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, besieged for months by paramilitaries who have now launched a "full-scale assault", according to the United Nations.

As the world body's high-level General Assembly meeting prepares Sunday to debate Sudan's 17-month war – which has claimed tens of thousands of lives and caused the world's largest displacement crisis – world leaders have warned against cataclysmic violence in the city of two million.

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