No images? Click here Thursday, 27 June 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY 755 000 people face catastrophic levels of food insecurity in Sudan, IPC reports 27 June 2024 – More than 25 million Sudanese - over half the country’s population - face acute levels of food insecurity, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) acute food insecurity analysis conducted between late April and early June 2024. Some 755 000 people face catastrophic levels of food insecurity and 8.5 million people experience large food shortages with high levels of malnutrition. A total of 14 areas - including localities in Darfur, Khartoum, Al Jazirah states and clusters of internally displaced people and refugees - are at risk of famine. These are the worst levels of acute food insecurity ever recorded by the IPC in Sudan. This represents a stark and rapid deterioration of the food security situation compared to the previous IPC update released in December 2023. IPC had warned that more people would face high levels of acute food insecurity during the lean season, without an immediate cessation of hostilities and humanitarian access. In the past months, the conflict significantly escalated and expanded to other areas among armed factions and a rise in organized violence, massive displacement, disruption of basic health services and hindered humanitarian access, which has led to a deterioration of the food security and nutrition situation in Sudan. Nutritional deficiencies make people increasingly vulnerable to disease, this is particularly true for children, for whom the combination of malnutrition and disease can prove fatal. Urgent action must be taken to prevent famine. Humanitarian access must be restored. Health facilities and health workers must be protected. Sudanese people deserve health and peace. Background:
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Thursday, June 27, 2024
MEDIA ADVISORY: 755 000 people face catastrophic levels of food insecurity in Sudan, IPC reports
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