Army ban on cross-border aid endangers lives in Darfur, say activists

FILE PHOTO: Refugees eat food in the Adre Sudanese refugee camp in Adre, Chad, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) - Millions of people in Sudan's Darfur region are at risk of dying of hunger after a decision by the Sudanese government to prohibit aid deliveries through Chad, an advocacy group for internally displaced people said on Tuesday.

The order, a digital copy of which Reuters has obtained, effectively shuts down a crucial route for supplies to the vast Darfur region, controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the army's rivals in a 10-month civil war.