The United Nations announced that the number of people suffering from “acute food insecurity” has doubled in Sudan, as the clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces forced about four million people to flee inside the country or take refuge outside it.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said in a statement today, Wednesday, that more than 20.3 million people, about 42 % of the country’s population, suffer from high levels of acute food insecurity, noting that “compared to the results of the last analysis, conducted in May 2022, the number of severely food insecure people has almost doubled.
The UN organization described the situation in Sudan as “critical”, especially with “nearly 6.3 million people in the emergency phase of acute hunger”.
FAO indicated that the most affected states are “those experiencing active conflict, including Khartoum, South and West Kordofan, Central, East, South and West Darfur, where more than half of the population faces acute hunger.”
Last April, clashes broke out in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
The clashes, which are still ongoing, have caused the displacement of more than three million people inside the country, while about a million people have crossed the borders to neighboring countries, according to the statistics of the International Organization for Migration, while statistics from medical organizations indicate that the death toll has reached at least 3,900 people.
Source: National Iraqi News Agency