UN Halts Food Help in Sudan Camp

WFP pauses food distributions in a Darfur camp as fighting in Sudan intensifies
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.
Sudan: UN food agency pauses aid in famine-hit refugee camp
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.
World Food Programme (WFP) forced to pause food distributions in Sudan's Zamzam camp as fighting intensifies
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.
UN halts food help in Sudan camp, warns thousands could starve
The United Nations World Food Programme has temporarily stopped distributing food aid in a famine-struck camp for displaced people in Sudan's North Darfur amid escalating violence, warning that thousands of families could starve in the coming weeks.
Sudan fighting halts food aid in famine-hit Zamzam camp, WFP warns of starvation
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.
UN food agency pauses aid to famine-hit Sudan displacement camp of half-million people
The World Food Programme said in a statement Wednesday that fighting over the past two weeks between the military and a paramilitary group forced its partners to leave the camp in western Darfur for safety.
Security conditions in a famine-hit camp in North Darfur are 'unbearable,' aid worker says
An international aid worker says that all roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security situation for aid workers on the ground has become “unbearable.”
VOA60 Africa - WFP pauses food aid in famine-hit Sudan refugee camp
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.
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