Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday. The charity was one of the few still working in the besieged Zamzam camp which houses around half a million people displaced by Sudan's 22-month civil war.

Zamzam camp hosts around 500,000 people and has seen displaced families newly arriving from the areas of Abu Zerega, Shagra, and Saluma, who told MSF teams of abuses in villages and roads in the El Fasher locality that include killings, sexual violence, lootings and beatings.

Medical charity MSF said on Monday that it has been forced to suspend its activities in the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur due to escalating attacks and fighting in and around it.

Medical charity MSF has halted its activities in Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur, Sudan, citing increasing violence. Despite critical humanitarian needs, the security risks have forced MSF to close its field hospital,

The Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said Monday that escalating attacks and fighting in and around the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur have forced it to suspend activities there.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) MSF has halted its activities at the Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur due to the escalating violence.

Despite widespread starvation and immense humanitarian needs, we have no choice but to take the decision to suspend all our activities in the North Darfur camp