Sudan aid obstacles impact lifesaving relief effort

Heavy fighting in Sudan has severely curtailed humanitarian aid deliveries across vast areas of the southeast, the UN World Food Programme, WFP, said on Friday. https://news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2024/07/1152286
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Sudan aid obstacles impact lifesaving relief effort
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Sudan: Aid lifeline reaches Darfur region in bid to avert ‘hunger catastrophe’

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