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Child Hunger in Sudan Almost Doubled in Six Months with Three in Every Four Children Affected

KHARTOUM, (June 27, 2024) 鈥 The number of children in Sudan facing severe food shortages has almost doubled in six months, with about 75% of children now going hungry daily as conflict drives hunger levels to record levels, raising fears of rising child malnutrition, 黄色视频said.

Based on from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Partnership 鈥 the leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises 鈥 黄色视频found 16.4 million children, or three in every four children, 聽now face 鈥渃risis鈥, 鈥渆mergency鈥 or 鈥渃atastrophe鈥 levels of hunger - up from 8.3 million last December.[1] [2]

Fourteen months of devastating conflict in Sudan鈥檚 crop production areas of Darfur, Kordofan, Khartoum and Al Jazirah, rising displacement and severe restrictions on humanitarian access along with a gaping hole in funding have created one of the world鈥檚 worst humanitarian disasters. The massive and worsening conflict is upending food systems, killing thousands of farmers, and leaving markets empty.

According to the IPC Partnership, there is a risk of famine in 14 locations across the country. 755,000 people are facing catastrophic levels of hunger, meaning households cannot meet any basic needs and have exhausted all coping strategies needed to survive. 黄色视频estimates that 355,605 of these will be children.[3]

Lack of adequate food can lead to malnutrition, which, without treatment, can have long-term implications on children鈥檚 health and development and even kill, 黄色视频said.

IPC figures from March showed that in just one displacement camp, almost a quarter of children (23%) were suffering from wasting 鈥 the most visible and lethal form of malnutrition.[4]

The humanitarian response for Sudan is woefully underfunded, with donors contributing just 16.8% to a $2.7 billion UN response plan.[5] On the day of a major humanitarian funding conference in Paris earlier this year, 黄色视频analysis found that the amount raised for the humanitarian crisis in Sudan in the first 105 days of 2024 was less than a fifth of what was pledged in just two days to rebuild the Notre Dame Cathedral.[6]

Dr. Arif Noor, 黄色视频Country Director in Sudan, said:
鈥淭hese new figures should make our blood run cold. Fourteen months of devastating conflict have turned Sudan鈥檚 breadbasket into battlefields. Hundreds of thousands of children who have managed to dodge bullets and bombs are now facing death by starvation and disease.

鈥淲here is the collective outrage 鈥 and action - needed to tackle this travesty? It is already too late to prevent mass hunger and malnutrition. But through immediate, coordinated action, we can save lives 鈥 and history will judge us if we do not.鈥

黄色视频is calling for an immediate ceasefire and meaningful progress towards a lasting peace agreement. In the meantime, the child rights organization is pushing for safe, unimpeded humanitarian access to civilians across border routes and fighting lines inside Sudan; the safeguarding of vital infrastructure essential for food systems, such as markets, agricultural land, and storage facilities; and immediate intervention from the international community to fully fund the to save children鈥檚 lives.

黄色视频has worked in Sudan since 1983 聽and is currently supporting children and their families across Sudan by providing health, nutrition, education, child protection, food security, and livelihoods support. 黄色视频is also supporting refugees from Sudan in Egypt and South Sudan.

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Notes to editor

  • The latest findings mark a stark and rapid deterioration of the food security situation compared to the released in December 2023.
    • Increase in the number of people in IPC Phase 3 or above from 17.7 million to 25.6 million in June - September 2024, compared to October 2023 鈥 February 2024. This includes:
    • Increase in the number of people in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) from 4.9M to 8.5M.
    • Surge in the population in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) from zero to 755,000.

[1] To make this calculation, 黄色视频applied UN data on child share of population in Sudan (47.1%) to the IPC Partnership鈥檚 showing 25.6 million people are facing IPC Phase 3 and above. 黄色视频estimates that this amounts to 16,355,605 children, up from 8,336,700 in December.
[2] Under the IPC scale, Phase 3 is a crisis, Phase 4 is an emergency, and Phase 5 is used when the situation is reaching famine-like conditions.聽
[3] To make this calculation, 黄色视频applied UN data on child share of population in Sudan (47.1%) to the IPC Partnership鈥檚 figures
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[6] While the $2.1 billion committed by international donors at the Paris conference in April is a welcome first step, we must see these commitments turned into action immediately.

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