A dire situation is unfolding in Sudan, as the United Nations’ food agency raises alarm over the highest recorded levels of hunger ever witnessed during the country’s harvest season, exacerbated by the ongoing conflict.
Leni Kinzli, a spokesperson from the World Food Programme, told the media: “The conflict needs to end now because we are seeing a situation that is spiralling out of control.
Sudan, already grappling with existing drivers of food insecurity, is now on the brink of a hunger catastrophe due to the protracted conflict between the army and RSF.
Kinzli stressed the gravity of the situation, noting, “These record levels of hunger, twice as much as there was the same time last year, in a situation where there were already existing drivers of food insecurity, the conflict, the ongoing fighting, is just compounding all of that, making it so, so much worse for already so vulnerable populations.”
The unfolding crisis in Sudan adds to the broader challenges faced by the Horn of Africa, with the region still reeling from drought conditions, as indicated by the recent reports of 170 deaths in Ethiopia’s Tigray region due to the persistent drought.
