US EditionFamine spreads to two more areas in Sudan, the top global hunger authority says
- Monday the IPC announced famine has spread to two regions, detecting it in el-Fasher, a city in Darfur, and Kadugli, a city in South Kordofan province.
- After the RSF took el-Fasher in October, reports show sieges like the 18-month blockade worsened food access, leading to famine in the region.
- The IPC found more than 21 million people, or 45% of Sudan's population, faced acute food insecurity as of September, including about 375,000 in famine and 6.3 million in IPC Phase 4.
- Humanitarian groups warned that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification called for a ceasefire as the sole way to prevent further deaths, while Save the Children reported food supplies had run out in Kadugli amid escalated fighting and displacement.
- The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification noted this is its second famine declaration in less than a year, with twenty other areas in Darfur and Kordofan also at risk amid livelihood collapse.
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Famine takes hold in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur
Famine has taken hold in two cities in Sudan’s Darfur region, after a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces which has been accused of mass killings. A UN-backed hunger monitor had previously confirmed famine in camps for displaced people, the first such categorization anywhere globally in years. But the new declaration of famine conditions in el-Fasher and Kadugli vastly expands the number of people at risk of dying from hunger. The RSF…
Many gruesome images of the war in Sudan are appearing on social media, particularly of the recent capture of the town of Al-Fashir by the RSF militia. Unfortunately, many of these images are authentic. But fake images are also being shared. These are AI-generated images, images that are much older or were taken in a completely different context. The massacre in Al-Fashir can even be seen from space, but not every satellite image showing red soi…
The UN-backed Global Hunger Monitor (GHM) said today that famine is present in the Sudanese towns of Al-Fashir and Kadugli, which are under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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