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US ramps up humanitarian aid as historic famine looms

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The US has announced another $315 million (R5 781m) for hungry Sudanese as it continues to press the warring sides to end obstruction of aid, warning that a famine of historic proportions could unfold without urgent action.

The aid will include food and drinking water, as well as malnutrition emergency screening and treatment for children.

It comes as estimates say that five million people inside Sudan suffer extreme hunger, with food lacking also in neighbouring countries where two million Sudanese have fled.

“We need the world to wake up to the catastrophe happening before our very eyes,” said Linda Thomas- Greenfield,

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