Starvation spreads from camps to besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher

Internally displaced women wait in a queue to collect aid from a group at a camp in Gadaref, after fleeing the Darfur town of El-Fasher. AFP - -

Months after famine was declared in nearby displacement camps, the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher is now seeing starvation deaths of its own, with no food aid entering and the UN’s World Food Programme warning of worsening conditions for the 300,000 people still trapped inside.

After nearly 28 months of siege, the UN’s children agency Unicef and the World Food Programme (WFP) say famine could soon take hold in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.