First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms | Humanitarian Crises News

Aid deliveries follow talks to reopen humanitarian corridors from Chad amid warnings that millions face acute hunger.

The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region for the first time in months amid warnings of impending famine caused by a yearlong war and lack of access to food aid.

The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said two aid convoys crossed the border from Chad in late March, carrying food and nutrition assistance for about 250,000 people for a month.

Food distribution is now under way in West and Central Darfur, the WFP’s Sudan spokeswoman,…