Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in an area of South Sudan facing violent conflict.

Statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator(New York, 12 June 2025) Again and again, the international community has said that we will ...

Although some other parts of South Sudan are seeing improvements in food ... or essentially are starving; at least 30% of children suffer from acute malnutrition or wasting, meaning they’re ...

It said that escalating “conflicts” in Palestine and the Sudan had driven extraordinarily high levels of acute food insecurity, with Gaza becoming the most severe food crisis since the annual ...

"I've heard people use the word 'starving.' " There have been nine deaths ... a flight headed to South Sudan — have sent a strong message. For Vivian, the possibility was a source of constant ...

Residents of 11 of the 13 counties in South Sudan 's Upper Nile state are now facing emergency levels of hunger, the World ...

CAIRO — Umm al-Kheir Bakheit was 13 when she arrived at Zamzam camp in the early 2000s, fleeing the janjaweed, the infamous Arab militias terrorizing Sudan ... months of starving its population ...

South Sudan - a central African country of around ... he explains how he fled into the bush and survived for days on wild fruit until, starving, he managed to get to the town of Narus, where ...

In Gaza, Israel’s bombing campaign, forced displacement, and siege have engineered the conditions for famine, while in Sudan, food stockpiles spoil at the borders while communities starve. These are ...

Mr Fletcher said: "We're seeing food set on the borders and not being allowed in when there is a population on the other side of the border that is starving ... in Ukraine, Sudan and Syria ...

Nema Musa left Sudan with only the clothes on her back, her college notebook, two student ID cards, and receipts proving she ...

World and regional powers including Russia, China, the UAE and Saudi Arabia are deeply involved in the current conflict playing out in Sudan.