Dhaka, March 26 -- For the activists who have been running the communal kitchen in Sudan's regional capital El Fasher for the past year, the United Nation's latest warning of "catastrophic hunger" felt as if someone had finally found the right words for the brutality of the situation.
For months the activists have not been able to raise funds or obtain food. They were simply left to watch their stockpiles diminish.
"Eventually, on February 15, we ran out of food and have not been able to feed anyone in our communal kitchen since then," one of the founders told DW. They asked that their name be withheld for fear of retribution; the region surrounding the city is currently the site of significant violent clashes.
The closure means that man...