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.

CAIRO (AP) — Doctors Without Borders on Monday halted its operations in Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp due to an escalation of attacks and fighting in the vicinity.

Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, has been forced to halt lifesaving aid in a famine-hit camp in Sudan as fighting escalates. As a result of the halt, more than half a million people are starving and trapped without medical aid.

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

Doctors Without Borders has suspended all its work at the Zamzam camp in Sudan, where around 500,000 people live seeking safety from the nation's civil war.

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.