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Update June 27: Read new IPC report on Sudan here
At a tent settlement in the Chadian border town of Adre, Ahmat feeds blue cloth into his foot-powered sewing machine, as a popular folksong from his native Sudan plays in loops over a loudspeaker.
Famine has been confirmed in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region.
The declaration for Zamzam camp is a result of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints.
Famine has been confirmed in Zamzam camp, which shelters hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region, as conflict, displacement and humanitarian-access constraints have devastating consequences.
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.
South Sudan is simultaneously drowning and drying as the climate crisis tightens its grip. An unprecedented flooding crisis has swallowed large swathes of the country while other parts are grappling with devastating drought.
More than 7 million people are food insecure, and 1.65 million children are malnourished.
Indigenous Peoples – accounting for just over 6 percent of the global population, or approximately half-a-billion people – are the custodians of extremely rich cultural heritages and ancestral knowledge in fields including medicine, nutrition, farming and forecasting weather, among others. Yet they are three times more likely to live in extreme poverty than their non-Indigenous counterp
The World Food Programme (WFP) is always looking to collaborate with NGOs that share our philosophy and goals. This spans organizations skilled in distribution, monitoring or early-warning activities, to those working in food-security assessments, advocacy for food and nutrition-related issues, or local coordination of food-security activities.