After months of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with no end in sight, the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that 19 million people, or 40% of Sudan’s population, will fall into hunger.
Since mid-April, the war’s disastrous effects in the capital’s three cities, Darfur, and numerous Kordofan state districts have created an unparalleled humanitarian catastrophe.
Muhammad Al-Amin, a WFP representative, told Sky News Arabia:
The country’s food insecurity worries WFP.
“I did not expect more than 19 million people to slip into hunger, and if that happened, it would be the highest number ever recorded in the country,” he continued.
As farmers confront insecurity and expensive fertiliser and seed costs, the violence might damage the agricultural season, he said.