UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said ‘around 638,000 people are confirmed to be in catastrophic hunger conditions, which are classified as phase 5 of the Integrated Food Security Classification (IPC).’There are reports of people dying of starvation in some areas like Darfur, Kordofan and Khartoum,’ Dujarric said at the daily press briefing at UN headquarters in New York.’All of this, to say the least, is a very horrific and sad situation. A record 4.7 million children under the age of five and pregnant and breastfeeding women and girls are suffering from acute malnutrition in Sudan,’ he added.’Thats why we keep calling on all of parties to silence the guns and put the interest of their people first and foremost,’ Dujarric said.’We urgently need to expand access and open new corridors both cross-border and across conflict frontlines to provide assistance and save people from dying of starvation,’ he stressedIn February, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Deputy Head of Office in Sudan Edmore Tondhlana affirmed that about 30 million Sudanese need urgent humanitarian aid, warning of further deterioration of the humanitarian situation as a result of the conflict that has been ongoing in Sudan for about 20 months.The armed conflict between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been ongoing since April 2023, resulting in over 20,000 deaths and displacement of nearly 14 million people, according to UN and local reports.
