UN food agency pauses aid to famine-hit Sudan displacement camp

A general view of Zamzam refugee camp after being attacked, outside the Darfur town of al-Fasher in Darfur region, Sudan (Maxar Technologies via AP)

The United Nations’ food agency says it has temporarily 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, and it warns that thousands could now starve.

The World Food Programme said on Wednesday that fighting in the past two weeks between the military and a paramilitary group in Sudan’s civil war has forced its partners to leave the camp in western Darfur for safety.