Heavy Rains Cut Off Key Supply Route to Sudan’s Darfur Region

A key supply route into Sudan’s Darfur region, deemed at risk of famine by experts, has been cut off due to heavy rains, a World Food Programme official told Reuters. Another U.N. official reported that refugees had been driven to eating grass. WFP’s Country Director Eddie Rowe told Reuters that thousands of tons of aid are stranded at the Tina crossing on the Chad border. This has prompted the WFP to reopen talks with the army-aligned government to open an alternative, all-weather crossing further south called Adre.