Famine looms in Sudan as civil war survivors tell of killings and rapes - BBC News

BBC teams report from the devastated capital and hear accounts of rapes and street executions from refugees.

14 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Dany Abi Khalil / BBCImage caption, Three-year-old Manasek is suffering from severe malnutrition - her mother Ikram says food prices have soaredBy Feras Kilani in Sudan & Mercy Juma in ChadBBC NewsCivilians caught up in Sudan's civil war have given graphic accounts to the BBC of rape, ethnic violence and street executions. Our journalists have managed to make it to the front line of the fighting close to the capital, Khartoum.

Top UN officials have said the conflict has plunged the country into "one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history" and could trigger the world's largest hunger crisis.

There are also fears that in Darfur, in the west of the country, a repeat of what the US called genocide 20 years ago may be beginning to unfold.

WARNING: This article contains accounts of physical and sexual violence

As if out of nowhere, a huge blast shakes the road in Omdurman. People scream and run in all directions, shouting: "Go back, go back, there'll be another one." Thick smoke blankets everything.

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