The World Food Programme, the largest provider of food aid in Sudan, said on Wednesday it was forced to pause food distributions in Sudan's famine-plagued Zamzam camp in North Darfur.The camp has been the target of repeated attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces who seek to uproot the army and allied forces from the region.

Intense fighting in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to temporarily pause the distribution of life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the famine-hit camp for displaced people. Over the past two weeks escalating violence left WFP’s partners with no choice but to evacuate staff for safety.

The World Food Programme has halted aid distribution in the Zamzam camp in North Darfur. WFP officials said intensified fighting between the military and RSF paramilitary forced them to stop providing the aid.

The World Food Programme said fighting in Sudan’s civil war has forced its partners to leave the camp of half a million people for safety.

The U.N.'s World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend operations in and around the famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of escalating violence between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) announced on Wednesday that it was halting aid operations at Sudan’s Zamzam displaced persons camp in North Darfur due to escalating violence between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and armed groups allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).