Areas near Sudan’s Khartoum at risk of famine, says UN agency | Sudan war News

Severe levels of ‘hunger, destitution and desperation’ found in the town of Jabal Awliya, south of Khartoum.

The risk of famine in Sudan has extended close to the capital Khartoum, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned as the country’s brutal civil war grinds on into its third year.

The agency has discovered “severe” levels of hunger in the town of Jabal Awliya, some 40km (25 miles) south of Khartoum, the WFP’s Sudan representative Laurent Bukera said on…