Port Sudan, Sudan – Famine is spreading in Sudan’s western Darfur region, U.N.-backed experts warned on Thursday, as a grinding war between the army and paramilitary forces has left millions hungry, displaced and cut off from aid.
Since April 2023, the conflict between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens of thousands, displaced 11 million and triggered what the United Nations calls one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
In an alert issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), global food security experts said that “famine thresholds for acute malnutrition have now been surpassed” in North Darfur’s contested areas of Um Baru and Kernoi, near the border with Chad.
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