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30 June 2024 (Khartoum) – The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) says more than 755,000 people are facing “catastrophe”, the worst level of extreme hunger.
The assessment also shows that an additional 8.5 million people (18 percent of the total population) face food insecurity, which could lead to severe malnutrition and death.
The conflict broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The United Nations hunger monitoring system said the intensified fighting would further limit aid access to threatened areas, warning that famine was a real possibility in several areas, including Darfur, Khartoum, Kordofan and parts of Gezira state.
The IPC said some 25.6 million people could face severe food insecurity between June and September.
Since the IPC’s early warning system was established 20 years ago, famine has only been declared twice: in parts of Somalia in 2011 and in parts of South Sudan in 2017.
Data released by the International Organization for Migration in June showed that the number of internally displaced people in Sudan exceeded 10 million, with 7.26 million people fleeing their homes.
Previously, the number of people displaced by the conflict had reached 2.83 million.
More than a quarter of Sudan’s 48 million inhabitants have now been forced to flee their homes, including more than 2 million across international borders.
(English stone)
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