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.
Food insecurity and malnutrition worsen across Somalia as the first famine risk since the 2022 crisis is confirmed amid the compounding effects of multiple shocks.
In conflict hit locations in Sudan that have been largely cut off from humanitarian assistance or under siege, famine has now taken hold.
World Food Program USA’s Fall Statement of Impact provides a snapshot of global hunger from May to September 2025 and how the World Food Programme (WFP) responded.  Â
Famine is manmade, deadly and entirely preventable. We’ve stopped famine before, and with your help we can stop it again.
Famine is a form of widespread hunger, and by the time famine is officially declared, it’s too late: tens of thousands are already dying of starvation.
