Medical charity MSF has been forced to suspend its activities in a famine-stricken camp in Sudan's North Darfur because of heavy fighting in the area, it said on Monday. The charity was one of the few still working in the besieged Zamzam camp which houses around half a million people displaced by Sudan's 22-month civil war.

Doctors Without Borders has suspended all its work at the Zamzam camp in Sudan, where around 500,000 people live seeking safety from the nation's civil war.

Doctors Without Borders, or Médecins Sans Frontières, has been forced to halt lifesaving aid in a famine-hit camp in Sudan as fighting escalates. As a result of the halt, more than half a million people are starving and trapped without medical aid.

Violence engulfs Zamzam camp in North Darfur, imperiling the lives of nearly half a million displaced people.Medical charity Doctors Without Borders announced on Friday that it is suspending operations at Sudan's largest displacement camp due to escalating violence.

Medical charity MSF said on Monday that it would suspend its activities in the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur due to escalating attacks and

Violence engulfing the Zamzam camp in North Darfur forced the medical charity out, imperiling the lives of nearly half a million displaced people.