SUDAN POLITICAL ALERT: UN World Food Programme - WFP expands emergency response to avert famine in war-torn Sudan

6/6/2024: UN World Food Programme - WFP expands emergency response to avert famine in war-torn Sudan

The UN World Food Programme announced that it is urgently expanding its emergency food and nutrition assistance in war-torn Sudan amid the looming threat of famine, with life-saving food and nutrition assistance to be provided to an additional 5 million people, thus doubling the number of people WFP had planned to support at the start of 2024.

WFP will also provide support in cash to 1.2 million people in 12 states, which “gives a vital boost to local markets and food producers,” and it is increasing how much food or cash it provides to people facing the most severe levels of hunger – more than two million people across more than 40 hunger hotspots.

Communities in areas where fighting is ongoing such as Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum and al-Jazira are said to be “at a high-risk of slipping into famine-like conditions if they do not receive urgent and sustained support.”