Heavy rain and continuing violence are threatening UN food aid to Darfur
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Conditions are poised to deteriorate rapidly for some 4.3 million conflict-affected persons in the vast western region of Sudan, which for five years has been the site of genocidal counter-insurgency warfare.
A "perfect storm" of threatening developments is brewing, warned UN humanitarian coordinator Mike McDonough on Sunday, and there can be little quarrelling with his grim assessment.
Malnutrition rates are rising even as heavy rains will soon turn much of Darfur's terrain into a sea of mud and a network of raging torrents, making food deliveries to many locations impossible by ground transport.
A "perfect storm" of threatening developments is brewing, warned UN humanitarian coordinator Mike McDonough on Sunday, and there can be little quarrelling with his grim assessment.
Malnutrition rates are rising even as heavy rains will soon turn much of Darfur's terrain into a sea of mud and a network of raging torrents, making food deliveries to many locations impossible by ground transport.
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