The IPC report outlines famine in five regions, including Zamzam in North Darfur province, Sudan’s largest camp for displaced persons.

Famine is spreading in Sudan war The U.N.-backed Global Hunger Monitor says such conflicts exist between the military and paramilitary groups.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee released a report on Tuesday outlining the famine in five regions, including Sudan’s largest displaced persons camp, Zamzam in North Darfur province.

Famine conditions have been confirmed in two internally displaced persons camps, Abu Shouk and al-Salam, in El Fasher, the besieged capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, and in residential areas and displaced communities in the Nuba Mountains of southern Sudan. to report.

The five-member committee also found that the famine first detected in August could spread to five additional regions in May – Um Kadadah, Melit, el-Fasher, Tawisha and al-Lait. It also identified 17 additional areas within Sudan as being at risk of famine.

According to the IPC report, 24.6 million Sudanese, half of the population, face severe food shortages.

“(The war) triggered unprecedented mass displacement, economic collapse, collapse of basic social services, severe social dislocation and poor humanitarian access,” the report said.

The IPC, an independent body funded by Western countries and made up of more than a dozen UN agencies, aid groups and governments, uses its monitoring as a global reference for analyzing food and nutrition crises.

The report comes despite continued interference by the Sudanese government in the IPC’s analysis of food shortages. On Monday, the government announced it was suspending participation in the Global Hunger Monitoring System, saying the IPC was publishing “unreliable reports that undermine Sudan’s sovereignty and dignity.”

Sudan endures 20 months of war that leaves casualties More than 24,000 people According to the United Nations, more than 14 million people, approximately 30% of the population, have been forced from their homes. An estimated 3.2 million Sudanese have crossed into neighboring countries, including Chad, Egypt and South Sudan.

The war broke out in April 2023 amid long-standing tensions between the military and the military. paramilitary rapid support force The conflict erupted into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, before spreading to other urban areas and western Darfur.

The conflict has been rife with atrocities, including racially motivated killings and rapes, according to the United Nations and human rights groups. The International Criminal Court is investigating suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity.

In conflict zones, hostilities can severely disrupt agricultural production, causing workers to abandon crops, the IPC added in its report. Farms also suffer from looting and the killing of livestock.

“Displaced households, especially those living in settlements and public buildings, are unlikely to benefit significantly from the harvest,” the report said.

Delvara Cleary, senior emergency and recovery officer at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, said the situation in Sudan was “very bad.”

“In today’s world, that’s unacceptable,” Cleary told The Associated Press. “We need to stop the violence so people can have access to food, water, health, nutrition and agriculture.”

Sudan is the third country to declare famine in the past 15 years. The other two are South Sudan and Somalia.