Hunger and malnutrition have increased across Sudan since 2023, when the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began battling for control https://reut.rs/3ZFzQaI 1/5
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By December, the RSF had consolidated control of much of Darfur and turned its focus toward al-Fashir, the last remaining major city in the region still controlled by the SAF and allied forces. The violence caused thousands more to flee to nearby Zamzam 2/5
In February, humanitarian organization Médecins Sans Frontières announced its doctors had found alarmingly high levels of malnutrition and mortality there. Nearly 25% of children were found to be acutely malnourished 3/5
In a country where data collection had become extremely difficult, the MSF survey offered the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification concrete evidence that Zamzam was spiraling toward famine. It was an opportunity to issue a warning 4/5
Instead, the survey became a flashpoint among members of the IPC group conducting analyses. A famine declaration would launch ‘the biblical armageddon war’ in Sudan, the country’s UN ambassador, Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, told the media https://reut.rs/3ZFzQaI 5/5
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