United Nations, Aug. 14 -- Seventeen areas of Sudan, including parts of Darfur, the Nuba Mountains, Khartoum and Gezira, have been classified as "at risk of famine," a UN spokesman said Wednesday.
One year ago, in August 2024, famine was confirmed in the Zamzam displacement camp in Sudan's North Darfur state and has since spread to areas in Darfur and Kordofan, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, at a daily briefing.
Since then, the situation, especially in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur, has only gotten worse.
The World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday called for humanitarian access to El Fasher which is facing starvation and remains cut off from humanitarian assistance, Dujarric...