More than 700 trucks are on their way to famine-stricken areas of Sudan as part of a major scale-up after clearance came through from the Sudanese government, a World Food Programme spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Displaced people living in Sudan's North Darfur state cheer at the arrival of the first convoy of food and supplies in months, but the glimmer of hope is still vastly short of what's needed. Also,

The UN's World Food Programme said Tuesday its first food trucks in several months had got through to a famine-stricken camp for displaced people

More than 700 trucks are currently on their way to communities across Sudan as part of a major scale up, a World Food Programme spokesperson said on Tuesday. "In total, the trucks will carry about 17,