Children as young as one year old are being sexually assaulted by armed men fighting in the civil war in Sudan, with the UN children's agency reporting sexual violence being used as a weapon of war. Unicef said 221 children,

"Sudan is a powder keg, on the verge of a further explosion into chaos, and at increasing risk of atrocity crimes and mass deaths from famine," Volker Turk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva. "The danger of escalation has never been higher."

The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides.

South Sudan stands at a precarious juncture as it enters another extended transitional period. The ongoing clashes between government forces, armed opposition groups, and allied militias in Western Equatoria and Nasir,

Addressing the UN Human Rights Council, Turk said Sudan was “looking into the abyss”, warning that famine could hit five more areas in the next three months, with a further 17 considered at risk in what he described as the “world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe”.

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Friday that hunger in Sudan's Zamzam refugee camp could worsen after the agency temporarily paused food assistance to the camp, citing intense fighting