Famine threatens Sudan

bmj;384/jan30_14/q255/FAF1faAFP/GettyFlood victims in Sudan’s Northern State survey their devastated homes last August.As war, drought, and floods devastate lives in Sudan, the UN has warned that more than 18 million people could experience famine-like hunger by the summer and more than 30 million will need food aid of some kind in the coming year.The head of the UN’s food programme in Khartoum has warned that unless the situation improves by May people in the capital will begin to starve to death. More than nine million Sudanese are internally displaced, the UN estimates, as families flee the civil conflict and climate change destruction. Another million are living in camps in neighbouring countries.
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