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Sudan war: Children dying of hunger in Darfur's el-Fasher city (www.bbc.com)
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Food is so scarce in [Sudanese city of] el-Fasher that prices have soared to the point where money that used to cover a week's worth of meals can now buy only one. International aid organisations have condemned the "calculated use of starvation as a weapon of war".

The hunger crisis is compounded by a surge of cholera sweeping through the squalid camps of those displaced by the fighting.

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Thursday said Sudan is experiencing the worst cholera outbreak the country has seen in years, fuelled by the ongoing civil war. There have been nearly 100,000 cases and 2,470 deaths over the past year, it said, with the current epicentre near el-Fasher.

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