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.
“We are targeting new refugees in reception and transit centres because the time right after fleeing crisis is of extreme difficulty and vulnerability,” H.E. Mr Hidemoto Fukazawa, Ambassador of Japan to Uganda said.
The World Food Programme (WFP) is working around the clock to deliver food assistance to communities across Sudan facing acute hunger. WFP’s priority is providing vital aid across 14 areas in the country to people who have been left either in famine or at risk of slipping into famine after 500 days of relentless conflict.
The funds will allow WFP to provide food assistance for 41,000 people living in camps in northern Iraq, who have little to no sources of income and rely on WFP’s monthly assistance for their food needs.
A recent WFP survey at the Al Ja’ada camp for refugees and internally displaced people – known as Al Jada’a 1 – found that 60 percent of the center's residents have to resort to coping str
The report found that many hotspots face growing hunger crises and highlights the worrying multiplier effect that simultaneous and overlapping shocks are having on acute food insecurity. Conflict, climate extremes, and economic shocks continue to drive vulnerable households into food crises.
The Nobel Peace Prize gives WFP recognition “for its efforts to combat hunger, for its contribution to bettering conditions for peace in conflict-affected areas and for acting as a driving force in efforts to prevent the use of hunger as a weapon of war and conflict”.
The nutrient-dense dates will also benefit nutritionally vulnerable refugees, such as pregnant and breastfeeding women and hospital patients.
This contribution from the State of Qatar Ministry of Municipality comes at a time when WFP is facing funding gaps resulting in only 60 percent of the required kilocalorie being given to refugees.
“We are grateful to the State of Qatar’s timely gesture
