UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

Special Once Africa’s breadbasket, Sudan faces a hunger crisis ‘unprecedented in scale and severity’

Once Africa’s breadbasket, Sudan faces a hunger crisis ‘unprecedented in scale and severity’

  • Top UN official says over 638,000 people are experiencing catastrophic food insecurity, and more than half of world’s acute malnutrition cases are concentrated in Sudan
  • She praises humanitarian groups for their determination and efforts to reach vulnerable people under increasingly difficult conditions, calls for more funding and media attention
By Ephrem Kossaify ·