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.

The escalation made it 'impossible' for the group to provide lifesaving humanitarian help to thousands of displaced people, it said in a statement

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, 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.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Medical charity MSF said on Monday that it has been forced to suspend its activities in the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur due to escalating attacks and fighting in and around it.

Despite widespread starvation and immense humanitarian needs, we have no choice but to take the decision to suspend all our activities in the North Darfur camp

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