If no immediate assistance is provided, thousands of desperate families in Zamzam will starve in coming weeks, warns WFP Sudan spokesperson - Anadolu Ajansı

Intense fighting in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to suspend life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the Zamzam camp, where famine has been declared, the agency said on Tuesday.

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 United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides

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 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).