At least 25 million people are struggling with soaring rates of hunger and malnutrition as the crisis in Sudan sends shockwaves around the region, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today, with thousands of families being displaced and forced across borders into Chad and South Sudan each week.
Sudan was once described as East Africa’s future breadbasket. A food security analysis for Sudan shows the highest levels of hunger ever recorded during the harvest season (October through February), typically a period when more food is available. If there is no significant increase in food assistance by the time the lean season arrives next May, conflict hotspots could see the emergence of catastrophic hunger, also known as Phase 5 on the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).
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– global bihari bureau
