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UN warns South Sudan at risk of ‘full-scale famine’ as fighting intensifies

UN’s humanitarian chief has warned that South Sudan is at a dangerous crossroads as it faces the risk of famine. Tom Fletcher, the under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and emergency relief coordinator, called

Families forced into displacement by famine in Sudan

South Kordofan and West Kordofan. For civilians, this has meant hunger has become unavoidable. Marasi’s experience reflects a wider pattern across western and central Sudan, where sieges and fighting have created famine-level conditions

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South Kordofan and North Darfur, while levels in some communities remained “catastrophic”. It added that emergency levels of hunger were expected to spread over the coming months and that the number of people needing humanitarian

Acute hunger grips nearly 20 million people in war-battered Sudan, says IPC

South Kordofan states remain at risk of famine, where 135,000 people face “catastrophic” levels of hunger. Those areas include the cities of el-Fasher and Kadugli, judged last year to be experiencing famine largely

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UN World Food Programme has said. The WFP says 363 million people around the world are now at risk of acute hunger, 45 million of them as a result of conflict in the Middle East

Three years of messages at once - a chronicle of Sudan's war pours in as trapped reporter's phone turns on

reporter's phone turns on Soon after Mohamed Suleiman entered the telecoms office in the coastal city of Port Sudan on 13 January he started to cry. He hadn't heard his phone ring