In its latest Sudan Food Security Alert, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) warns that parts of the country are facing a risk of Famine as the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) threatens access to food for millions.
In its latest Sudan Food Security Alert, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network warns that parts of the country are facing a risk of Famine as the ongoing war between the Sudan ese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces threatens access to food for millions.
According to the report, these actions"could occur either through deliberate, prolonged isolation of households - a tactic armed actors have already used to a lesser degree in a periodic, temporary manner - or as a byproduct of further escalation of conflict, such that populations are isolated from access to food assistance, community support, and remittances, and informal cross-border trade flows are blocked.
"National food availability is already tightening rapidly due to the impact of the conflict on both domestic production and imports. The national cereal availability gap is anticipated to be over 2 million metric tons, based on estimates of domestic production, and anticipated formal wheat imports through Port Sudan.
"It is imperative that government actors take further steps to operationalize and safeguard humanitarian corridors, which are essential to facilitating the necessary scale-up in food assistance and to reach the populations most in need," FEWS NET states. "To cope, populations are expected to increasingly resort to consuming wild foods and seeds that would have been used for planting; liquidating their assets to purchase food; relying on the sale of natural resources and already thinly stretched family and community support; begging; and undertaking risky migration through conflict zones in search of food and income."
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