WFP warns escalating violence in Sudan’s El Obeid could trigger displacement and worsen the country’s already catastrophic hunger crisis.
Conflict, displacement and restricted humanitarian access leave nearly 19.5 million people – two out of every five people in Sudan – facing crisis levels of acute food insecurity.
After three years of war, millions of people are left without access to food, shelter or sanitation, WFP warned today.
More than a million Sudanese refugees in Chad face immediate and life-threatening cuts to food, water, shelter, protection and health care.
WFP Shipping Chief Henrik Hansen explains how we are working 24/7 to reduce rising costs and transit times.
WFP is struggling to keep lifesaving emergency operations running. Sudan’s shows no signs of slowing down.
A new joint report by FAO and WFP warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which could drive more into famine.
In conflict hit locations in Sudan that have been largely cut off from humanitarian assistance or under siege, famine has now taken hold.
Urgent international attention called on the crisis in Sudan to address the immense suffering and growing dangers to the population.
New WFP report, ‘A Lifeline at Risk’, finds that 13.7 million WFP food aid recipients could be pushed into emergency levels of hunger.
