The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), of which WHO is a member, today issued a Food Insecurity and Malnutrition Alert for Sudan.

Key highlights

The IPC is warning of a growing risk of famine across parts of Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan, where conflict, mass displacement, severe drought and inadequate humanitarian funding are driving a rapidly deteriorating situation.

An El Niño-induced drought, affecting roughly half of the country, is compounding the impacts of conflict and displacement, reducing food availability, driving up prices and affecting livelihoods. The IPC Alert highlights alarming levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition in several localities, including new areas of concern.

Health care is extremely limited, often entirely inaccessible, while clean water is becoming increasingly scarce, leaving a poorly nourished population highly vulnerable to disease and death.

Recommended actions

• End hostilities, safeguard civilians, and protect food, water and health systems;
• secure safe and sustained humanitarian access in frontline areas, especially in North and West Kordofan;
• scale up integrated, lifesaving humanitarian response; and
• provide at-scale, flexible and predictable funding.