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The Famine Review Committee (FRC)’s conclusion that there is famine in Zamzam camp, is the first determination of famine by the Committee in more than 7 years, and only the third time a famine determination has been made since the monitoring system was created 20 years ago.

In Gaza’s two northern governorates, where around 300,000 people remain trapped, famine is expected to arrive between now and May. The famine threshold for acute food insecurity has already been far exceeded, while acute malnutrition among children below five years is proceeding at record pace towards the second famine threshold.

  As you read this, 42.3 million people around the world stand on the brink of famine, as conflict, climate change and global economic instability combine to create hunger crises in countries across the globe.

 Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza risk famine this winter unless fighting stops and more humanitarian aid reaches desperate families, according to a new hunger assessment published today by experts from 16 UN agencies and nongovernmental organizations.Known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, the snapshot projects that 1.95 million people in Gaza, or more than

The UN food agency is scaling up to provide life-saving food and nutrition assistance to an additional 5 million people by the end of this year, doubling the number of people WFP had planned to support at the start of 2024.

 Read new IPC report on Sudan hereVIEW LATEST NEWS RELEASES Sudan’s capital Khartoum is at risk of famine, with over 90,000 people facing catastrophic levels of hunger (IPC5) - meaning they are unable to access enough food to survive and are at risk of starvation.

 Hundreds of truckloads of World Food Programme assistance are speeding this month to the hungriest parts of Sudan, as part of a massively scaled-up response after famine was confirmed at a camp for displaced people in the country’s Darfur region.Targeting an initial 3 million people this month, the WFP food-and-cash support aims to prevent more people from falling into catastrophic hunger, o

Breaking: WFP Sudan latest In the eastern city of Port Sudan, where tens of thousands of war-displaced seek shelter, frail infants with stick-thin arms chalk up dangerously high malnutrition levels. Hungry people pack schools and other makeshift housing centres, clinging to scant belongings from their old lives.

As the impacts of Coronavirus continue to ravage the world’s most vulnerable countries, our Executive Director David Beasley has warned about what could come.  "...without the resources we need, a wave of hunger and famine still threatens to sweep across the globe.” – UN WFP Executive Director, David Beasley. 

Sudan is sliding into catastrophe, with famine conditions recorded in the Zamzam camp for displaced people near the conflict-riven town of El Fasher in North Darfur.