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WFP temporarily halts food aid in parts of Sudan as fighting spreads

A World Food Programme (WFP) worker carries a bag of relief grains to be distributed to Sudanese refugees, near the border between Sudan and Chad, in April 2023 [File: Mahamat Ramadane/Reuters]

The United Nations food agency has temporarily suspended food assistance in some parts of Sudan’s al-Jazirah state where it was supporting more than 800,000 people, as fighting spreads south and east of the country’s capital, Khartoum.

About 300,000 people have fled the previously peaceful state in a matter of days, since clashes erupted last week, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday.

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