Global hunger monitor declares famine in camp in Sudan’s North Darfur
Al Jazeera
UN’s hunger monitoring system finds ongoing famine in Zamzam camp and is likely to persist until October.
The war in Sudan and restrictions on aid deliveries have caused famine in at least one camp for displaced people in Sudans’s North Darfur region, according to a report by the global authority on food security.
Thursday’s United Nations-backed report, linked to an internationally recognised standard known as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), found that it is plausible that parts of North Darfur – especially the Zamzam camp – are experiencing “the worst form of hunger”, known as IPC Phase 5.
IPC Phase 5 is determined in areas where at least one in five people or households severely lack food and face starvation and destitution, which would ultimately lead to critical levels of acute malnutrition and death.
This marks just the third time a famine determination has been made since the system was set up 20 years ago.
The IPC partnership includes more than a dozen UN agencies, aid groups and governments that use the IPC as a global reference for analysis of food and nutrition crises.
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