On Tuesday, a Reuters reporter saw a trail of men crossing from Darfur into Chad at Adre, about 27 km (17 miles) west of El Geneina. More than 500,000 people have crossed into Chad, mostly from West Darfur, the IOM says. Chad border guards said the daily number of those fleeing from West Darfur had surged to 3,146 on Saturday. U.N. officials in Chad said thousands more were expected to cross but had been prevented from doing so by RSF forces demanding money. Toby Hayward, a senior U.N. official for Darfur, described reports and images emerging from Ardamata as "sickening".

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Persons: El Tayeb, Chad Violence, RSF, El Geneina, El, Ardamata, Nabil Meccia, Meccia, Sharaf Eddin Adam, Adam, U.N, Mashaar Omar Ahmed, Sarah Adam Idris, Abdel Karim Rahman Yacoub, Toby Hayward, Maggie Michael, Nafisa, Aidan Lewis, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: REUTERS, Rapid Support Forces, Reuters, Saturday, International Organization for Migration, IOM, Thomson Locations: Chad, El, Sudan's West Darfur, Darfur, El Geneina, Adre, Ardamata, Ardamata's Kobri, Sudan, West Darfur, Ardamata's District