Warring generals in Sudan agree to extend by five days a humanitarian ceasefire they repeatedly violated and which failed to deliver promised aid corridors
In a"major breakthrough", the World Food Programme said Monday that it had begun reaching thousands of Khartoum's trapped residents.
In Darfur, on Sudan's western border with Chad, continued fighting"blatantly disregards ceasefire commitments", according to Toby Harward, of the UN's refugee agency, UNHCR. Despite the increasing needs, it says it has only received 13 percent of the $2.6 billion it requires. But by the seventh day of the truce relief supplies had only trickled in, including to replenish the few hospitals that are still functioning in the capital.
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