'Confirming UN Agencies' Worst Fears,' Famine Declared in Sudan Refugee Camp | Common Dreams

“We urgently need a massive expansion of humanitarian access so we can halt the famine that has taken hold in North Darfur and stop it sweeping across Sudan,” said the head of the World Food Program.

Following 15 months of civil war in Sudan that’s displaced more than 10 million people and blocked the delivery of food to desperately hungry Sudanese, the United Nations Famine Review Committee said Thursday that famine now exists in a camp housing hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced people in North Darfur.

The Famine Review Committee (FRC) published a report “confirming U.N. agencies’ worst fears” about the arrival of a long-forewarned famine in the Zamzam camp. It’s the committee’s first famine determination in more than seven years, and only its third since its current monitoring system was created 20 years ago.