The Sudanese people ‘are trapped in an inferno of brutal violence” with famine, disease and fighting closing in and no end in sight, the top UN humanitarian official in the war-ravaged country said.

Clementine Nkweta-Salami told a UN press conference that “horrific atrocities are being committed with reckless abandon, reports of rape, torture and ethnically motivated violence are streaming in”, communities and families have been torn apart, and almost 9 million people have been forced to flee their homes in what is now the world’s largest displacement crisis.