CAIRO (AP) — Doctors Without Borders on Monday halted its operations in Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp due to an escalation of attacks and fighting in the vicinity.

Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, has been forced to halt lifesaving aid in a famine-hit camp in Sudan as fighting escalates. As a result of the halt, more than half a million people are starving and trapped without medical aid.

The medical charity, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said it has been forced to halt its activities in North Darfur State due to the escalation of attacks and fighting in and around Zamzam camp for displaced people near the North Darfur capital,

Doctors Without Borders has suspended operations in Sudan's Zamzam camp, citing increasing violence between the military and Rapid Support Forces. The conflict has hampered their ability to provide essential medical services,

The current escalation of attacks and fighting in and around Zamzam camp for displaced people near El Fasher in North Darfur is making it impossible for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to continue providing medical assistance in such dangerous conditions.

The situation is really alarming and is about to get out of control,” said Dr Francis Layoo Ocan, MSF’s medical consultant in Kosti

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