Sudan war threatens ‘world’s largest hunger crisis’: WFP
Al Jazeera
Warring generals leave at least 25 million facing food insecurity, with humanitarian response at ‘breaking point’.
The war in Sudan threatens to trigger “the world’s largest hunger crisis” a United Nations agency has warned.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that more than 25 million people scattered across Sudan, South Sudan, and Chad are “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity. However, the brutal civil war shows no sign of easing after 10 months of fighting.
The “relentless violence” leaves aid workers unable to access 90 percent of people facing “emergency levels of hunger,” the WFP added.
Concluding a visit to South Sudan, WFP executive director Cindy McCain said, “Millions of lives and the peace and stability of an entire region are at stake”.
