First UN food supplies arrive in Sudan's Darfur after months but millions face acute hunger

First food aid in months reaches war-wracked Darfur

GENEVA - Warning that the war in Sudan risks triggering the world’s worst hunger crisis, the World Food Program said Friday that it finally has mana

The United Nations has resumed distributing food after months in the western Sudanese province of Darfur, which is threatened by famine due to the country's year-long war and lack of access to food aid.

UN body delivers food aid to Darfur amid warnings of impending Sudan

CAIRO: The World Food Programme said on Friday it had negotiated the delivery of the first two convoys of food aid into Sudan’s Darfur region in months, amid warnings of impending famine caused by a one-year war and lack of access to food aid. The war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has sparked widespread hunger in the country, after destroying infrastructure and markets and displacing more than 8 million people.

First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms

Aid deliveries follow talks to reopen humanitarian corridors from Chad amid warnings that millions face acute hunger.

Sudan: Darfur receives first food aid deliveries in months

The first aid convoys in months have arrived in Darfur. But the WFP's top envoy to Sudan said "unprecedented" starvation will sweep across the country unless more aid can be delivered.

First UN food supplies arrive in Sudan's Darfur after months but millions face acute hunger

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The United Nations said Friday it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s restive western Darfur region for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border deliveries in March, but the population still faces widespread hunger unless more help arrives. The yearlong conflict between military and paramilitary forces in Sudan is causing one of the world’s worst hunger crisis. About a third of the country’s popula…