Factbox-How bad is the hunger crisis in Sudan and what does famine mean?


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  • Thursday, 01 Aug 2024

FILE PHOTO: A handout photograph, shot in January 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. MSF/Mohamed Zakaria/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

(Reuters) - A global food monitor concluded on Thursday that war in Sudan had caused famine at a camp for displaced people in North Darfur, and similar conditions may exist elsewhere in the region.

The finding comes amid a deepening hunger crisis across Sudan triggered by war between two military factions, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which erupted on 15 April 2023.

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