Nearly 20 million people in Sudan still face acute hunger, monitors say
\n—————————-
\nSome 19.5 million Sudanese people, or more than 40 percent of the population, are experiencing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, as the contours of a war that has created the world\u2019s worst hunger crisis shift.<\/p>\n
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 \u200cagriculture and \u200cdisplacing 14 million.<\/p>\n
The estimate by the UN-backed Integrated \u200cFood \u2060Security Phase Classification (IPC) is \u2060slightly lower than last fall\u2019s estimate of 21.2 million people, but some 14 areas in the country\u2019s North Darfur, South Darfur, and South Kordofan states remain at risk of famine, where 135,000 people face \u201ccatastrophic\u201d levels of hunger.<\/p>\n
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. But \u2060in October, the RSF completed their takeover of Al-Fashir, \u200clargely emptying the city, while this year \u200cthe army broke the siege of Kadugli.<\/p>\n
Some 825,000 children are expected to suffer from severe acute malnutrition as insecurity, access restrictions, and budget cuts have made aid deliveries to many parts of the country difficult, the IPC said.<\/p>\n
Sudan\u2019s rainy season, which begins around July and coincides with the leaner planting season, is expected to also worsen conditions. Among the other areas at risk of famine are areas in North Darfur hosting those fleeing from Al-Fashir, including Tina, Um Baru, and Kernoi, which have seen drone attacks as well as fighting as the RSF consolidates its control of the area.<\/p>\n
The regional Iran crisis also threatens to worsen the situation, raising food, fuel and fertilizer prices and making a successful harvest later this year less likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nearly 20 million people in Sudan still face acute hunger, monitors say —————————- Some 19.5 million Sudanese people, or more than 40 percent of the population, are experiencing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, as the contours of a war that has created the world\u2019s worst hunger crisis shift. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5017],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sudan"],"yoast_head":"\n