Khartoum|Forum of Horn Vision"HAPC"
Friday|June19,2026
Sudan is facing one of the most severe food crises in its modern history, as a joint UN report issued by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme revealed grim forecasts indicating an unprecedented widening of the scope of acute food insecurity, threatening 14 regions in the country with the immediate risk of famine during the period from June to November 2026.
According to the joint report, the most dangerous hotspots are concentrated in three main states: North Darfur, South Darfur, and South Kordofan.
The warnings did not stop at the limits of the coming months, but the UN assessment confirmed that the high level of risk will remain in place in 13 other regions even during the harvest season, and its impact will extend until January 2027.
The report painted a terrifying digital picture of the reality of living in Sudan , with 40% of the population – representing about 19.5 million people – already suffering from acute levels of food insecurity up to May 2026. In addition, there is the emergency stage (Phase 4), which alone includes about 5 million Sudanese living in a very critical situation, leading up to the catastrophic stage ( Phase 5) , where international organizations expect a terrifying jump in the number of those facing this stage to reach 200,000 people distributed across 15 regions during the period from June to September 2026 , after the number stood at 135,000 during the period from February to May of the same year.
The Sudanese people is living through a triple threat of death in war, funding, and climate. The UN report attributed this rapid and dangerous deterioration in the food situation to these three main overlapping factors, which are embodied in the continuation of the armed conflict that is tearing the country apart, the severe shortage of funding for humanitarian response plans, in addition to climate shocks that have dealt a fatal blow to agricultural production.
