Food supplies arrive at Zamzam, a large camp for displaced people in the region of Darfur.
The United Nation's World Food Programme is attempting to transport aid across Sudan, home to world's biggest humanitarian crisis
The UN's World Food Programme said food deliveries had been held up for months by fierce fighting in the nearby Darfur city of el-Fasher, as well as the "impassable" roads brought on by the rainy season. The food convoy to Zamzam is part of a major surge in the WFP's efforts to reach those in the "most needy and isolated conflict areas", the organisation said.
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