By Nafisa Eltahir

AL-DABBA, Sudan (Reuters) -As the siege by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces tightens around al-Fashir, the few able to pay to escape describe living under constant shelling and negotiating violence at checkpoints to get out of a city where people have resorted to eating animal feed.

Last week, a U.N. fact-finding mission found that the RSF had committed crimes against humanity in al-Fashir, the final holdout of the Sudanese army in the Darfur region of western Sudan.

"Hearing about this is nothing compared to living it," said one escapee, Dar al-Salam Hamed. When she and her family finally decided to leave, she said they were searched aggressively by RSF soldiers and robbed on the road.

"We truly wish to never meet these people ever again," she told Reuters at a camp in al-Dabba, an area under army control.

The RSF did not respond to requests for comment.

Two-and-a-half years of war between the paramilitary RSF and the army has created what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis in Sudan, with widening pockets of famine........

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