Famine conditions are spreading across Sudan’s war-torn western Darfur region, with global hunger monitors reporting that acute malnutrition has now reached famine levels in additional towns, including Umm Baru and Kernoi. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said these latest findings show the humanitarian crisis — already described by the United Nations as the world’s worst — deepening amid nearly three years of conflict between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The worsening food insecurity comes as clashes continue across multiple fronts of the civil war. On Thursday, RSF forces bombed a military hospital in South Kordofan’s Kouik town, killing at least 22 people including the hospital’s medical director and other staff members, according to the Sudan Doctors’ Network. Eight others were wounded in the attack, which medics and humanitarian observers say highlights the severe risks faced by healthcare workers in areas of active fighting and shrinking aid access.
The protracted conflict has displaced millions and disrupted food production and aid deliveries, leaving vast swathes of the population without reliable access to basic necessities. With famine thresholds now crossed in more communities and health facilities repeatedly targeted, both hunger and violence are accelerating civilian suffering in Darfur and beyond.
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