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Aid agencies in Sudan are struggling to meet overwhelming demand amid disrupted supply routes and funding bottlenecks, said Save the Children US CEO and President Janti Soeripto following a visit to Darfur. Sudan’s war has entered its fourth year amid a deepening humanitarian crisis.

In April, the United Nations estimated that 34 million Sudanese people require humanitarian assistance, 21 million lack access to health services and around 4 million are acutely malnourished.

Soeripto sat down with Al-Monitor in Washington, shortly after her trip across West, Central and North Darfur.

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