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Fighting in Sudan hampering food aid supply, WFP says

Aid supplies from World Health Organization (WHO) and UAE-AID are loaded into a plane for Port Sudan, at the Abu Dhabi International Airport, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 5, 2023.

The World Food Program says it is struggling to get aid to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and other areas seeing intense fighting and multiple failed cease-fires.

World Food Program spokeswoman for Sudan Leni Kinzli said Thursday the agency has started distributing food aid to people who have fled the fighting in what she described as "peaceful" locations.

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