A war has pitted the regular army against the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces for more than a year and the two belligerents are using “hunger as a weapon of war”, according to the United Nations.
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Due to the conflict ravaging Sudan, 25.6 million people, more than half of the country’s population, face “acute food insecurity”, warned a report supported by the UN on Thursday June 27. According to projections from the Integrated Food Security Classification Framework (IPC) report, on which UN agencies rely, this figure includes “more than 755,000” Sudanese faced with “famine”, the highest level of the IPC scale. Furthermore, more than 8.5 million people are in a situation of“emergency”the last level before famine.
The war, which has left tens of thousands dead and displaced more than nine million people, has pitted the army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, against the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023 ( FSR) of his former deputy, General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo. The two belligerents use “hunger as a weapon of war”said UN experts, estimating that the foreign governments which help them are complicit in “war crimes”.
According to the CPI, there are “a risk of famine in 14 areas” Darfur (west), Kordofan (southwest), al-Jazeera (center) and the capital, Khartoum, and its surroundings. Access for humanitarian organizations to Sudan is “insufficient” and part of the population risks “to starve”had already warned the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, at the beginning of June.
