Over half of Sudanese face 'acute food insecurity': U.N.-backed report
The Hindu
Sudan's war has led to widespread food insecurity, with millions at risk of famine, according to a UN report.
More than half of Sudan's population is facing high levels of "acute food insecurity", a situation exacerbated by the country's devastating war, said a report cited by the United Nations on June 27.
Sudan has been gripped by war since April 2023, when fighting erupted between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.
The conflict in the northeast African country of 48 million has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions and triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
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"Fourteen months into the conflict, Sudan is facing the worst levels of acute food insecurity" that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, has recorded, the report said.
The crisis would impact "approximately 25.6 million people," it said, including 755,000 in famine conditions and an additional 8.5 million facing "emergency" situations.
It pointed to "a stark and rapid deterioration of the food security situation" compared with the previous figures published in December, with a 45 percent increase in people facing high levels of acute food insecurity.
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