Experts this week told a British parliamentary committee that the United Kingdom aid cuts to Sudan — where it was once a major donor — contributed to a breakdown of monitoring and communications that might have helped officials predict the outbreak of the current armed conflict between rival factions of Sudan’s military.
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The consequences of U.K. aid cuts are becoming clearer in Sudan.