SUDAN NEWS ALERT: New York Times - At Least 750,000 on Brink of Starvation and Death in Sudan, Experts Warn
The New York Times report that at least 14 areas across Sudan are near famine, including some in Khartoum, according to the latest figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a group of experts that formally declares famine.
With over half Sudan’s 48 million people facing chronic hunger, this leaves over 750,000 at risk of death by starvation.
However, the IPC has not formally declared a famine in Sudan, in part because reliable data is hard to obtain. Sudan’s health system is collapsing and aid workers cannot reach the worst-affected areas because of intense fighting and restrictions imposed by the warring parties.
Famine scholar Alex de Waal told The Horn podcast: “We may not see a famine declaration, but there’s no question that the starvation crisis is on a scale without parallel for 40 years or more, and is going to kill hundreds of thousands of Sudanese”.