Sudan needs 'immediate action' on hunger to avert widespread death, UN-backed report says


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  • Saturday, 30 Mar 2024

FILE PHOTO Women and children wait to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme WFP in Thonyor Leer state South Sudan February 25 2017. REUTERSSiegfried ModolaFile Photo

FILE PHOTO: Women and children wait to be registered prior to a food distribution carried out by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Thonyor, Leer state, South Sudan, February 25, 2017. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola/File Photo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Immediate action is needed to "prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan," a United Nations-backed global authority on food security warned on Friday.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) had been due to issue an update to its December analysis that found nearly 5 million were on the verge of catastrophic hunger. But it was unable to do so due to the war.


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