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The United Nations, on Monday, said it is seeking $6 billion for Sudan this year from international donors to help ease suffering. The UN described the suffering as the “most devastating crisis ...

Timothy Njagi Njeru does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

One of the casualties of suspending funding for USAID programs and threatening to shut the agency down has been FEWS NET, the global Famine Early Warning System, which I helped create 40 years ago ...

GENEVA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday.