UN Sudan chief says country 'abandoned' after three years of war

The top United Nations official in Sudan told AFP on Thursday that the country, facing the world's largest humanitarian crisis, has been "abandoned" as the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enters its fourth year.

"People shouldn't call this a forgotten crisis -- that's almost offensive. It's abandoned," Denise Brown, the UN's resident and humanitarian coordinator, told AFP from her office in Khartoum, one of the only functional buildings in the capital's post-apocalyptic city centre.