FAMEME announced in 2 more places in Sudan, says Famine Monitoring

The world’s leading authority on food grains says It has found famine in two areas of Sudan, including the town of El Fasher where militant groups are reported.

In its report on Monday, the classification of integrated food security (IPC)

The IPC says these areas have been hit by “complete collapse of livelihoods, hunger, extremely high levels of malnutrition, and death.”

Twenty other areas in Darfur and South Kordofan, where fighting has intensified in recent months, are also at risk of starvation.

El Fasher has been under siege by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for 18 months, cutting off much of the food and other supplies for tens of thousands of people inside. Last week, it took the city, it is reported that it opens a wave of killings and attacks on people who have killed hundreds, or the magnitude of the violence is still not clear, there is little communication in the region.

As the city fell, reports and videos spread about RSF atrocities against civilians including beatings, murders and sexual abuse, according to the testimony of civilians and aid workers. The dead included at least 460 who died in hospital, according to the World Health Organization.

Kadugli has been besieged by the RSF for months, with tens of thousands of people trapped inside, as the group tries to seize more territory from its forces, the Sudanese military.

The World Food Program said in April Remoine was confirmed in 10 places, according to IPC data.

Sudan has been torn apart since April 2023 by a power struggle between the military and the RSF. More than 40,000 people have been killed, according to UN figures, but AID groups say that is an underestimate and the real number could be much higher. The war uprooted more than 14 million people from their homes, disease broke out and parts of the country went into famine.

In total, some 375,000 people have been forced into Darfur and South Kordofan since September, the report said. Another 6.3 million people across the country face “emergency” food insecurity.

Keep the children saying that in September the food ran out in Kadugli, when the fighting increased. It said that tens of thousands were driven from their homes, many fled to other parts of the city due to roadblocks preventing escape.

In IPC’s five levels of food insecurity, hunger, or category 5, is determined in areas of at least five people or four areas of killing five people, or four children under five years of age, per 10,000.

The IPC has confirmed only a few famines in the past, most recently in northern Gaza earlier this year during Israel’s campaign against Hamas. Other locations were in Somalia in 2011, and in South Sudan in 2017 and 2020, and last year in parts of Sudan’s Darfur Region.

Another town in South Kordofan, was said to be experiencing similar conditions to Kadugli, but the IPC did not declare famine due to lack of information, the report said. Since the forces seized the capital of Khartoum earlier this year, the RSF has turned its focus to ending its hold on the West Darfur region and seizing South Kordofan to secure the country’s borders.

The report warned that other villages near El Fasher, including Tawila, have melted and Tawisha, are at risk of starvation. Those three communities received the largest share of people who fled El Fasher.

The IPC called the fire as the only way it can “prevent further failures and help contain high levels of acute food insecurity and malnutrition.”