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.

Violence engulfing the Zamzam camp in North Darfur forced the medical charity out, imperiling the lives of nearly half a million displaced people.

The current escalation of attacks and fighting in and around Zamzam camp for displaced people near El Fasher in North Darfur is making it impossible for Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to continue providing medical assistance in such dangerous conditions.

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.

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.

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,

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