The UN’s new relief chief Tom Fletcher has been visiting Sudan to highlight what he calls an “invisible crisis.” The new Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, chose Sudan to highlight what is now described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, 25 million people, half of the population, needs lifesaving aid. But it’s not getting the international attention and aid that it needs. Mr Fletcher has spent the past four days in Port Sudan and in Kassala in the east visiting Sudanese communities and meeting high level Sudanese officials to try to improve the delivery of aid. He is inow in neighbouring Chad now to visit camps which give refuge to more than half a million Sudanese who’ve The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet is travelling with him .
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