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FAO tells U.N. Security Council famine has expanded in Sudan; urges immediate humanitarian access and emergency agricultural aid
Summary
A Food and Agriculture Organization representative told the U.N. Security Council that famine conditions in parts of Sudan have expanded, nearly 25 million people face acute food insecurity, and immediate humanitarian access plus emergency agricultural support are needed to avert further deaths and long-term collapse of livelihoods.
A Food and Agriculture Organization representative told the U.N. Security Council that famine conditions in parts of Sudan have expanded and nearly 25 million people now face acute food insecurity.
"The latest reports on food security are the worst in the country's history," the FAO representative said in a virtual briefing, calling for urgent political leverage to stop hostilities and for immediate, unimpeded humanitarian access.
The FAO presenter said the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis shows roughly 25,000,000 people facing acute food insecurity: about 15,900,000 in IPC 3 (crisis); 8,100,000 in IPC 4 (emergency); and just over 637,000 in IPC 5 (catastrophe). The briefing said famine was classified in August 2024 in Zamzam camp, North Darfur, and that famine conditions persisted and expanded through late 2024 into other sites in North Darfur…
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