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WFP warns against worsening starvation in Sudan

Displaced people receive food donations from the World Food Programme (WFP) at Akuom Boma, Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan, on Feb. 28, 2024. [Xinhua]

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) warned on Friday that Sudan's hunger crisis will worsen unless its people receive a constant flow of aid via all possible humanitarian corridors.

Eddie Rowe, WFP representative and country director in Sudan, said in a statement "I fear that we will see unprecedented levels of starvation and malnutrition sweep across Sudan in this lean season."

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