Almost 20 million people in Sudan still face acute hunger, monitors say
Key takeaways
- Those areas include the cities of al-Fashir and Kadugli, judged last year to be experiencing famine largely as a result of sieges by the Rapid Support Forces.
- Drone warfare has seemed to replace such ground campaigns as the leading mode of warfare in Sudan.
- “Ongoing hostilities – especially around major supply routes, such as El Obeid in North Kordofan – and the possibility of renewed siege‑like conditions continue to heighten risks,” the IPC said in a statement.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize Some 19.5 million people, or more than 40% of the population in Sudan, 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 displacing 14 million.
The estimate by the U.N.-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) is slightly lower than last fall’s estimate of 21.2 million people, but some 14 areas in the country’s North Darfur, South Darfur, and South Kordofan states remain at risk of famine, where 135,000 people face “catastrophic” levels of hunger.