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Famine deepens in Sudan as civil war continues to rage
Sudanese refugees arrive in Acre, Chad, October 6, 2024

FAMINE is deepening in war-torn Sudan, reports confirmed today, with little food in markets and aid groups saying that they’re struggling to reach the most vulnerable people as warring parties limit access.

More than 24,000 people have died and millions more have been injured or displaced since the civil war erupted in Sudan between the country’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last April.

For months, Aziza Abrahim fled from one village in Sudan to the next as people were slaughtered. Yet the killing of relatives and her husband’s disappearance are not what forced her to leave the country for good. It was hunger, she said.

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