Famine ravages Sudan

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Warring parties block crucial aid providers from getting food to the starving

Raous Fleg sits outside a hut in a displaced persons camp she fled to in Sudan's South Kordofan state. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Sudan's military and its paramilitary rival have blocked the UN's humanitarian agencies from delivering aid to large areas of the war-torn country where people are dying from starvation. The country's food crisis is a grim illustration of what happens when a critical part of the global system for combating famine falters.

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Behind the news

A conflict in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 has unleashed waves of ethnic violence, created the world's largest internal displacement crisis, and pushed at least one area in Darfur into famine. What's behind the war that has driven Sudan to famine?

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