The World Food Programme, the largest provider of food aid in Sudan, said on Wednesday it was forced to pause food distributions in Sudan's famine-plagued Zamzam camp in North Darfur.The camp has been the target of repeated attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces who seek to uproot the army and allied forces from the region.

The World Food Program said fighting between the military and paramilitary group forced its partners to leave the camp in western Darfur for safety.

The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend operations in and around the famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur because of escalating violence. “Intense fighting in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced” the Rome-based agency “to temporarily pause the distribution of life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the famine-hit camp for displaced people.