About 13 children die each day at a camp in Sudan for displaced people, medical charity MSF says

By TOM ODULA
Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Thirteen children are dying everyday of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudan’s Northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10 month war in their country, Medical charity Doctors without Borders or MSF said Monday. At the same time the head of the United Nations refugee agency warned that Europe may have to deal with a new flow of Sudanese refugees if a cease-fire agreement isn’t signed soon between Sudan’s warring sides and relief efforts aren’t strengthened. MSF says that Zamzam, a camp of more than 300,000 people near North Darfur’s regional capital, El Fasher,  was originally formed by people fleeing ethnically targeted violence in the region in 2003. Ever since the war broke out between Sudan’s security forces camp residents have been cut off from vital humanitarian aid.