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UN says Sudan could become world's largest hunger crisis

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People displaced by the ongoing conflict in Sudan between the army and paramilitaries wait to receive aid from a charity in Gedaref, Sudan, Dec 30, 2023. [AFP]

U.N. humanitarian officials said Wednesday that nearly a year into Sudan's civil war, almost 18 million people are facing crisis levels of food insecurity and tens of thousands of children are at particular risk of death from malnutrition.

"Areas with active conflict are recording the most highly food-insecure populations," Maurizio Martina, deputy director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization, or FAO, told a meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

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