Sudan
Title: Hunger Crisis (Sudan)
Subject: Civil War in Sudan and Genocide
Created: 2024
Medium: Graphic Design
Software: Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop CC
Dimensions: 36″x48″
Article
“Around 2.5 million people in Sudan could die from hunger by September 2024, Dutch think-tank, the Clingendael Institute has warned in a new report.
The report, which is based on published data on harvests and stocks, household stocks, wheat imports, and humanitarian aid, predicts that if the current situation continues, there will be estimated excess mortality of about 2.5 million people.
According to the report, 90 percent of the excess mortality will be concentrated in 10 percent of the total population, with 15 percent of the population of Darfur and Kordofan, which are likely to be worst affected, expected to die from hunger and disease by September 2024.
Since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, the food security situation has rapidly deteriorated due to logistics disruptions caused by the conflict, depleted harvests, a drop in imports and soaring food prices.
After the war erupted, community-level initiatives for sharing food sprang up across the country, with many of the hungriest people relying solely on these informal soup kitchens.”
– Middle East Eye, Sudan: 2.5m people could die from hunger by September 2024, warns Dutch think tank
“Nearly five million people in Sudan are at risk of “catastrophic” hunger in the coming months, the United Nations has warned, calling for the country’s warring parties to allow aid deliveries.
In a note to the UN Security Council on Friday, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said acute levels of hunger were being driven by the impact of the conflict on agricultural production, damage to major infrastructure and livelihoods, disruptions to trade, severe price hikes, impediments to humanitarian access and massive displacement.
“Without urgent humanitarian assistance and access to basic commodities … almost 5 million people could slip into catastrophic food insecurity in some parts of the country in the coming months,” Griffiths wrote.
He said it was likely that some people in West and Central Darfur would move into famine conditions as security worsens, adding that cross-border aid delivery from Chad to Darfur is a “critical lifeline”.”
– Al Jazeera, UN warns five million could suffer ‘catastrophic’ hunger in Sudan amid war
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