STARVATION is killing scores every day in war-torn Sudan, where hunger blights 25 million people, well over half of the country’s population. At least 18 million people – about 40% of the total population – are acutely food insecure, including 3.8 million malnourished children.
More than a dozen children are dying of hunger daily in the Zamzam camp which hosts over 300 000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) near North Darfur state’s capital city, Al-Fashir, said Adam Rojal, spokesperson of the General Co-ordination of