Early Warning Systems Hub Alerts

Food assistance needs in Sudan are rapidly accelerating due to the recent expansion in fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)
and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) into the southeast. Sudan is now expected to have the third highest share of the population in need
among FEWS NET’s monitored countries in 2024. The opening of this new front is further disrupting trade and agricultural activities in
Sudan’s breadbasket, posing a significant threat to national food availability.

Attack and suspended humanitarian access underscore risk of Famine in Djibo

SUDAN: Intense conflict, organized violence and continued economic decline drive 17.7 million people into high levels of acute food insecurity between October 2023 and February 2024

GAZA STRIP: Hostilities leave the entire population highly food insecure and at risk of Famine

AFGHANISTAN: 13.1 million people experience high levels of acute food insecurity in October 2023 driven by climatic shocks, macro-economic instability and unemployment

Strong El Niño will drive high needs across Southern Africa through early 2025

South Sudan: Approximately 5.83 million people likely to experience high levels of acute food insecurity, 1.65 million children expected to be acutely malnourished

Strong El Niño event will contribute to high food assistance needs through 2024

Democratic Republic of the Congo: 25.4 million people experience high levels of acute food insecurity between July and December 2023 driven by conflict and insecurity

Nearly 4.4 million children in northwest and northeast Nigeria suffering acute malnutrition