UN World Food Programme halts Sudan operations as fighting continues
by Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum, Jason Burke and from World news | The Guardian on (#6AV85)
Three of agency's workers killed amid two days of violent clashes between army and paramilitaries
Violence has been reported across Sudan for a second day as fighting continued in the capital and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said it was temporarily halting all operations in the country after the deaths of three employees in the Darfur region.
It followed a day of deadly battles between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that left at least 56 people dead and nearly 600 wounded in Khartoum. Sudan's army launched airstrikes on a rival paramilitary force's base near the capital in an effort to reassert control over the chaotic country.
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