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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend and Julian Borger

Sudanese factions using starvation as weapon is ‘cowardice’, US envoy says

A young child partly covered with a blanket gazes upwards in a displacement camp
A child at a displacement camp in Sudan’s Kassala state. More than 25 million people across the African country are now classified as facing acute hunger. Photograph: Faiz Abubakr/Reuters

The US special envoy for Sudan has accused the two factions in the country’s civil war of “cowardice” before crucial peace talks that are due to start on Wednesday.

Tom Perriello told the Guardian that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military “lacked courage and honour” because of their continued use of starvation as a weapon.

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