Aid trucks trickle into Darfur as army pauses delivery ban

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00:00In these UN images, trucks from the World Food Programme cross from Chad into Sudan

00:06via the Adra border crossing, carrying desperately needed aid.

00:10Staple foods bound for the 13,000 people at risk of famine in West Darfur, a small fraction

00:16of the more than 6 million facing severe food insecurity across the Darfur region as Sudan's

00:22civil war grinds on.

00:25We will need a constant supply of humanitarian goods.

00:28It is critical to sustain that flow of food and nutrition assistance into and across Sudan,

00:34where more than a dozen areas are either at risk or in risk of famine.

00:40More than half the country's population, some 25 million people, are suffering acute hunger

00:45amid the now 15-month-old war between the regular army, led by General Abdel Fattah

00:49al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces Militia, or RSF, led by Mohammed Hamdan Tagalog.

00:56The Adra crossing is one of three routes that humanitarian groups want opened up to

01:01allow more aid into Darfur.

01:03Army forces had blocked it for months, accusing the United Arab Emirates of using it to send

01:08weapons to supply RSF fighters.

01:11U.S.-brokered negotiations aimed at a ceasefire are ongoing in Geneva, without a delegation

01:17from the army, which has refused to attend in person, though they are consulting remotely.

01:22It would be easier to work on the national cessation of hostilities if the army sent

01:26a delegation.

01:27The key, though, is the results.

01:29Sudan is now also dealing with a cholera epidemic as sanitation systems break down, an outbreak

01:35that is exacerbating the world's worst hunger crisis in a country once regarded as a breadbasket

01:42of Africa.

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