Cairo/Port Sudan – The spread of conflict, access challenges and widespread flooding are severely hampering the emergency response efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations across the country, FAO Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for the Near East and North Africa, AbdulHakim Elwaer, warned.
According to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) results published in June, over half the population – 25.6 million people – face Crisis or worse conditions (IPC Phase 3 or above) between June and September 2024, coinciding with the lean season. This includes 755 000 people in catastrophic levels of acute hunger (IPC Phase 5) across 10 states.