Sudan is on course to become the world's worst hunger crisis, with children already dying, UN says
by Edith M. Lederer
Mar 20, 2024
3 minutes
The nearly year-long conflict between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces has put the African nation on course to become the world’s worst hunger crisis with malnutrition soaring and already claiming children’s lives, the U.N. humanitarian office warned Wednesday.
Edem Wosornu, the director of humanitarian operations, told the U.N. Security Council that already one-third of Sudan’s population – 18 million people – face acute food insecurity, and catastrophic hunger levels could be reached in some areas of the western region by the time “the lean season” arrives in
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