The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides.

Intense fighting in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to suspend life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the Zamzam camp, where famine has been declared, the agency said on Tuesday.

The World Food Programme, the largest provider of food aid in Sudan, said on Wednesday it was forced to pause food distributions in Sudan's famine-plagued Zamzam camp in North Darfur.

An international aid worker says all roads around Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam camp in North Darfur are blocked and the security situation there has become “unbearable.”

The U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday that it was forced to suspend operations in and around the famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan’s North Darfur because of escalating violence. “Intense fighting in Zamzam camp in Sudan’s North Darfur region has forced” the Rome-based agency “to temporarily pause the distribution of life-saving food and nutrition assistance in the famine-hit camp for displaced people.