SUDAN NEWS ALERT: Reuters – Sudan faces famine risk in 14 areas, global hunger monitor says

27/6/2024: Reuters – Sudan faces famine risk in 14 areas, global hunger monitor says 

There is a realistic chance of famine in 14 areas across Sudan, warn the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC).

The areas include parts of the capital Khartoum, the regions of Darfur and Kordofan and Al-Jazira state.

The IPC is a collaboration that includes U.N. agencies, national governments and aid groups, and produces internationally recognised assessments of food crises. Its most extreme warning is Phase 5, which has two levels, catastrophe and then famine.

Famine can be declared if at least 20% of the population in an area are suffering extreme food shortages, with at least 30% of children acutely malnourished and two people out of every 10,000 dying daily from starvation or malnutrition and disease. 

Since the IPC warning system was created 20 years ago, famines have only been declared twice - in parts of Somalia in 2011 and in parts of South Sudan in 2017.