Check your subscription status, update your details and more. Drought driven by El Niño is causing hunger and disease in Sudan that has already killed hundreds of children Displaced people queuing for food in Daba Naira camp in Tawila, Sudan Hundreds of children have died of starvation and disease in a drought in Sudan caused by the record-breaking El Niño. The risk of this leading to a full-blown famine is growing.
Almost half the country is experiencing drought, which in some areas is the worst in decades, according to a warning from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a partnership of the United Nations and charity organisations. As a result, crops are failing and people are dying in a “humanitarian catastrophe, already of historic proportions”, it said. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox.
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