Humanitarians confirm record levels of hunger in Sudan's crisis
The conflict has pushed over 20 million people into severe acute hunger, including 6.3 million a step away from famine.
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The conflict has pushed over 20 million people into severe acute hunger, including 6.3 million a step away from famine.
Without U.N. intervention, the tanker could have released as much as four times the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
The U.N. confirmed at least 17,000 metric tons of food – enough to feed more than half a million people – were taken.
Sudan's unraveling forced humanitarian aid organizations, including those with staff killed by fighting, to suspend operations, despite millions of civilians in great need.
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