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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Mahamat Ramadane, Joe Bavier and Emma Farge

Sudan deepens crisis in Africa as UN sees 5 million more needing aid

Sudanese refugees, who fled the violence in their country, wait to receive food supplies from a Turkish aid group (IHH) near the border between Sudan and Chad in Koufroun, Chad May 7, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra

When a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run.

But four days after seeking refuge in neighbouring Chad - a country with its own dire humanitarian crisis - she had yet to receive any assistance and was just hoping they wouldn't starve.

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