Over 40% of Sudan's Population Face High Levels of Acute Food Insecurity, Monitoring Group Warns
The IPC said 135,000 people are in Phase 5 as conflict, displacement and rising farm costs deepen the risk of famine.
- On Thursday, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification reported that nearly 19.5 million Sudanese face acute food insecurity through May, including 135,000 experiencing catastrophic starvation levels as the conflict enters its fourth year.
- Sudan's three-year civil war between the Sudanese armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces has pushed 14 areas toward famine, with the IPC warning of escalating risks if conflict and displacement intensify.
- An estimated 825,000 children face severe acute malnutrition this year amid "very negative coping mechanisms," according to Grace Oongee from the Norwegian Refugee Council, who reported families consuming animal feed and leaves to survive.
- The US-Israel war on Iran threatens to worsen Sudan's situation by raising food and fuel prices; gasoline costs have already shot up by around 30%, jeopardizing the upcoming harvest.
- Drones killing at least 880 civilians since January have replaced ground campaigns as warfare's primary mode, and conditions are expected to deteriorate further as the rainy season begins in July, coinciding with the lean planting season.
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UN warns 20 million people in Sudan face threat of major famine
New York, May 15 (SANA) Three United Nations agencies issued a joint warning on Friday regarding the worsening hunger crisis in Sudan, stating the country is on the brink of a major humanitarian tragedy unless urgent international action is taken. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) confirmed that approximately 19.5 million people now suffer from critical food insecu…
FAO, WFP and Unicef warn that two in five Sudanese suffer from acute food insecurity, amid a conflict that exacerbates hunger, malnutrition and mass displacement
Almost 20 million people in Sudan still face acute hunger
Some 19.5 million Sudanese people, or more than 40 percent of the population, are facing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, as the contours of a war that has created the world's worst hunger crisis shift. The spread of hunger and famine has become a hallmark of the three-year-old war in Sudan, which is estimated to have killed hundreds of thousands of people as well as devastating the economy and agriculture and disp…
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