Darfur aid: 'It has never been so bad'

Aid workers are getting less and less access to those in need in the war-torn Darfur region even as 50,000 people fled their homes amid a government offensive this month, the UN’s humanitarian co-ordinator in Sudan says.

Manuel Aranda Da Silva said the situation in Darfur had never been so bad for aid workers’ access since August 2003, the start of the conflict that has since killed more than 200,000 people and displaced 2.5 million in the vast region of western Sudan.