The civil war in Sudan is on the brink of spiralling out of control, the United Nations warned on Friday, a year after the start of major fighting in the East African country. At least 16,000 people died so far, with 33,000 injured and around nine million displaced, and a famine is now looming, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). More than a third of the people in the Sudanese capital Khartoum and in the Darfur region are already suffering from acute food deprivation, the agency said. The number of children under the age of five and pregnant and breastfeeding mothers suffering fr…