Russia claims there is no famine in Sudan as millions suffer from acute food shortages

On Monday, the United States accused Russia at the U.N. Security Council of fueling civil war in Sudan by funding both warring parties. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the council, “Russia chose obstruction: standing alone as it voted to imperil civilians while funding both sides of the conflict.” Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, disputed the U.S. accusations, saying that the “Western nations” were the “external sponsors of instability” in Sudan and were using the crisis “to undermine” the African nation’s “sovereignty and territorial integrity.” Hunger, he said, was one of the

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