Sudan: Uptick in Fighting Threatens WFP’s Food Surge in Hungry Sudan

With famine threatening to spread, safe passage is key

Animal feed kept 40-year-old Nour and her family alive over three perilous months in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp.

“People here take this Ombaz, cook it with salt and eat it,” Nour says of the substance, made of crushed groundnut shells, which has helped to keep many camp residents from starving. “There’s a lot of hardship and suffering in this place.”

Nour spoke to the World Food Programme (WFP) hours after our first food aid…