Aid workers find little life in El Fasher

International aid staff who accessed Sudan's El Fasher for the first time since its takeover by a paramilitary force found the city largely deserted, with a few people sheltering in buildings or under plastic sheets, a senior UN official said.

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Sudanese refugees from El Fasher fill water containers at a water point in the Tine transit camp in Chad on Nov 10.AFP

More than 100,000 are estimated to have fled El Fasher since late October after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control there following an 18-month siege that plunged the city into famine.

Survivors reported ethnically motivated mass killings and widespread detentions during and after the takeover. Many people remain unaccounted for in El Fasher and surrounding areas.

In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Denise Brown, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, described El Fasher as a "crime scene".