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Sudan’s military and its paramilitary rival have blocked the UN’s humanitarian agencies from delivering aid to large areas of the war-torn country where people are dying from starvation.

Local volunteers who have helped to feed Sudan’s most destitute during 17 months of war say attacks against them by the opposing sides are making it difficult to provide life-saving aid amid the world’s biggest hunger crisis.

UK accused of trying to head off condemnation of Gulf ally over alleged aid to forces accused of genocide in Darfur

The dangers females face tend not to be fully appreciated until it is too late, says Darren Lewis, as even more horrific stories come to light following the death of teenager Elianne Andam

Abdalla Sholgami and wife Alaweya Rishwan were 'left behind' after being told to cross a warzone despite her disability and board a flight out of war-torn Khartoum, family say

While refugees of Russia's war can get a visa in 48 hours, there is no scheme in place for those in Sudan where more than 700 have been killed since fighting began

The family of seven, including an 88-year-old Kent-born grandma and her three grandchildren under 10, managed to escape the fighting in the capital Khartoum and reached the Sudan-Egypt border town of Wadi Halfa

The extra rescue missions left Port Sudan after UK citizens faced a noon deadline to complete a dangerous 500-mile drive from Khartoum

Despite the dangers of being left behind, NHS workers Sarra Eljak, 38, her husband Mustafa Abbas, 44, said it was too risky to make the journey to the evacuation site with their children Danya, 12, Menna, 11, Anne, seven, and Mohammed, six months

The situation in Sudan is chaotic what is needed is clear thinking from the UK Government as they try to get everyone home safely

The final British evacuation flight from Sudan is due to leave the war-torn country tonight, but one NHS doctor said he knew three others who had difficulty getting to the airbase

Tagwa Taha, a teaching assistant in London, found out her father Nadir Taha had died in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Thursday morning

The UK Government had issued a deadline of 12pm local time today for British evacuees to be at the Wadi Saeedna site near the capital otherwise they risk being left behind - but many chose not to attempt the perilous journey through the active warznone

Images of a Turkish transport plane that flew into British-controlled Wadi Sayedna airfield in Sudan showed extensive damage to the plane's body, as it arrived to rescue Brits

The RAF has evacuated more than 1,500 Brits from Wadi Seidna airfield near the capital of Khartoum, but thousands more UK nationals may remain

Paul Routledge on the latest Conservative farce, the failure to bring home thousands of Brits from war-torn Sudan – and it's all down to a lack of governing by the Government, the job that comes with the job

Alaaldeen Hussin, who survived a perilous three-hour journey to an airfield before flying to Cyprus, also hit out at the Foreign Office, saying 'they could have done more'

Nadia Baasher, a representative of the Sudanese Junior Doctors Association UK SJDA and a paediatric emergency doctor in London, told the Mirror she is in a WhatsApp group with 75 NHS doctors stuck in the country where a deadly war has unfolded

Jennifer McLellan and her family were hiding from gun fighting in Sudan, not knowing how they would escape, when a last minute call sent them fleeing to the airport

Foreign Secretary James Cleverly told British nationals wanting to leave the war-torn country to "move now" as he admitted he could not guarantee the ceasefire would even hold until tonight

Some 250 Britons arrived at London Stansted Airport having flown from the capital Khartoum via Larnaca in Cyprus, including one dad pictured boarding holding his two girls’ hands

Hundreds of Britons have been airlifted from Sudan, with more evacuation flights taking off today as the UK scrambles to rescue its citizens from the war-ravaged nation

It's estimated around 4,000 UK passport holders are stranded in the east African country after fighting broke out earlier this month between the Sudanese army and rebel Rapid Support Forces

Dr Lina Badr is stuck in Sudan with her three children, aged 15, 13, and two, and is desperate to escape, fearing it is "too dangerous" to wait for officials to respond

But not all the UK passport holders stuck in the war-torn nation are expected to make it onto British military flights during the 72-hour ceasefire