UN Calls for International Aid as Sudan Faces Imminent Famine Amid Civil War
"Extreme hunger is unfolding" and funding is slow to arrive, several UN agencies warned.
A group of United Nations agencies and humanitarian groups sounded the alarm Friday that 18 million Sudanese are acutely hungry as a civil war that began in April 2023 continues to ravage the country. The Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), a group of 12 U.N. agencies and 7 humanitarian organizations, issued a statement on the staggering scale of hunger and insecurity in Sudan...