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| Africa Live this week: 25-31 March 2024 - BBC News | Africa Live this week: 25-31 March 2024 - BBC News |
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| James Landale | |
| Diplomatic correspondent, BBC News | |
| British MPs have warned that food aid is being used as a weapon of war in Sudan’s bitter civil conflict. | |
| Vicky Ford, the chair of parliament's all-party group on Sudan, said there was evidence both warring sides - the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces - were restricting humanitarian aid. | |
| She was speaking after new research suggested more than 100 villages in western Sudan had been burned. | |
| The war in Sudan has been raging for almost year and the fighting is brutal. | |
| The Centre for Information Resilience – a government-funded research group – says that 108 villages and settlements in western Sudan have been fully or partially destroyed by fire since last April. | |
| The UK Foreign Office says what’s happening bears all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing as black Africans are targeted by Arab militias. | |
| There are warnings of famine with more than 20 million people needing food aid. | |
| Ms Ford also said sexual violence against women was widespread, with evidence that some girls were deliberately disfiguring themselves to avoid rape. | |
| The all-party group has put out a statement calling for the international community to give more aid. | |
| It’s also urging some countries – including the United Arab Emirates – to stop giving arms to the warring parties. | |
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| Famine looms in Sudan as civil war survivors tell of killings and rapes | |
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