CUT OFF AND NIGGLETED FROM FOOD AND CASH; SUDANESE STARVE AS PESSIMISM DRAGS ON

Smoke rising above Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, last month. And Hungry residents search for scraps as war between rival generals upends trade.

Desperate to feed his children since their country was plunged into war, Sudanese electrician Ahmed Siri has sold off the family furniture. During breaks in the fighting, he combs the rubble of bombed-out buildings for scraps of food and bottled or clean water. He has padlocked the kitchen to ration dwindling supplies.which has resulted in to starvation as fighting drags on.