Reports have been coming in that a hospital in Sudan's North Darfur has been damaged in a heavy uptick of hostilities, leaving two youngsters dead and fanning renewed famine fears, UN aid teams have said.
have been coming in that a hospital in Sudan 's North Darfur has been damaged in a heavy uptick of hostilities, leaving two youngsters dead and fanning renewed famine fears,
The clashes extended into the centre of the town, the outskirts of the main market and into neighbourhoods, resulting in civilian deaths and injuriesBefore the latest bloodshed, humanitarians warned that months of escalating violence around El Fasher Town had been behind"persistent" aid access obstructions that had hampered the sustained flow of aid and basic commodities,In Darfur alone, some nine million people need humanitarian assistance today,...
It revealed that 17.7 million people - more than one-third of the country's population - faced acute food insecurity or worse, with level three indicating"Crisis" and five indicating"Famine".
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