The famine-stricken refugee camp Zamzam in the Darfur region of war-torn Sudan has been hit by floods, writes Reuters.
This creates new health risks for the upwards of half a million people in the camp.
Satellite images analyzed by researchers at Yale University show how brown river water has risen near toilets and places where people queue for water.
Zamzam is Sudan's largest camp for internally displaced people and some people have lived there for over 20 years.
"A population already vulnerable due to food and water shortages, on the run and under siege, is now surrounded by floodwaters contaminated with human and animal feces," Yale's Nathaniel Raymond told Reuters.
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Now there is formal famine in a giant camp in Sudan
The UN warns that the famine in Sudan is becoming the deadliest in more than ten years - while the world's eyes are turned elsewhere. That's what AP writes.
On Thursday, international experts confirmed that there is formal famine in the giant Zamzam refugee camp in North Darfur. At least 400,000 people live in the camp.
Other parts of Sudan are also at risk of starvation if measures are not taken, according to the experts.
The famine risks becoming worse than the last great famine in the world 13 years ago. That time, Somalia was hit and a quarter of a million people, half under the age of five, are estimated to have died.
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