Dying of starvation in Sudan

Twenty-month-old Bara’a Ahmed being treated at the malnutrition unit at a hospital in Port Sudan, Sudan. A devastating civil war is pushing the country toward a full-blown famine, according to the international body that measures hunger. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

AT least 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation and death in Sudan, where a devastating civil war has left over half the country’s 48 million people in a situation of chronic hunger, the global authority on famine says.

At least 14 areas across the country are near famine, including some in the capital, Khartoum, according to the latest figures from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a group of experts from UN bodies and major relief agencies that measures hunger and formally declares famine.