Humanitarian groups have for months been warning against looming famine in the camp - and it has now officially been declared. Sky News meets a woman living there and experts who say the situation could get even worse.
About half a million residents in the Zamzam displacement camp, North Darfur, are living in extreme strife and in a state of famine. A doctor working there describes the humanitarian situation as 'catastrophic'. 'People are dying from hunger,' says Dr Nasr Yousif Rajab, the camp's health rapporteur and a member of the local Emergency Response Room .
Both sides have over the last months actively denied the delivery of humanitarian assistance into Al-Fashir.' Relief International is one of the few humanitarian organisations still operating in Zamzam. Its country director Kashif Shafique says it currently has supplies there but urgently needs to resupply or potentially halt operations. 'The current supplies are insufficient to meet our needs.
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