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The warehouse contained enough stocks to feed nearly 1.5 million severely food insecure people for one month in Gezira State, where a new offensive has forced more than 300,000 people to again run for their lives.
“Sudanese people who are already desperate and fleeing the fighting have now been robbed of the critical assistance they need.