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In Sudan, Yousuf said smugglers left his group for a month in the desert enduring searing hot days and bitter cold nights surviving on meagre rations of rice and contaminated water.

“We were born in the Second World War, 1944 and we had rations — we were living on suet and you were living on steak here,” Daltrey said in his own interview.

In the platypus attendant's logbook, the interns found evidence that his rations en route were being decreased as some of the worms began to perish.

"Amidst severe hunger and famine-like conditions, many families tell us they are now too weak to compete for food rations," the groups said.

Last month, a UN official told the BBC that hundreds of thousands of people were "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels.