www.reuters.com Open in urlscan Pro
2600:9000:235a:6200:15:5a3e:9d40:93a1  Public Scan

Form analysis
0 forms found in the DOM

Text Content

Skip to main content

Exclusive news, data and analytics for financial market professionalsLearn more
aboutRefinitiv

Reuters home
 * World
   Browse World
    * Africa
    * Americas
    * Asia Pacific
    * China
    * Europe
    * India
    * Israel and Hamas at War
   
    * Japan
    * Middle East
    * Ukraine and Russia at War
    * United Kingdom
    * United States
    * US Election
    * Reuters Next
   
   Latest in World
    * Air France extends suspension of Paris-Beirut flights until Aug 6
      5 min ago
      
    * Iran says Hamas leader Haniyeh was killed by 'short-range projectile'
      11 min ago
      
    * Exchanged prisoner Yashin condemns his 'illegal expulsion' from Russia
      28 min ago
      article with gallery
    * Somalia beach attack kills 32 civilians, police say
      30 min ago
      article with gallery

 * Business
   Browse Business
    * Aerospace & Defense
    * Autos & Transportation
    * Davos
    * Energy
    * Environment
    * Finance
    * Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
   
    * Media & Telecom
    * Retail & Consumer
    * Future of Health
    * Future of Money
    * Take Five
    * World at Work
   
   Latest in Business
    * Silicon Valley Bank's former owner gains approval to end bankruptcy
      2:47 AM GMT+2
      
    * Hedge funds grow bearish amid economic slowdown jitters, Goldman says
      2:40 AM GMT+2
      
    * US FDA says all doses of Lilly's weight-loss and diabetes drug are now
      available
      2:32 AM GMT+2
      article with gallery
    * Fed's Barkin tells PBS program he won't prejudge what to do at next
      meeting
      2:31 AM GMT+2
      

 * Markets
   Browse Markets
    * Asian Markets
    * Carbon Markets
    * Commodities
    * Currencies
    * Deals
    * Emerging Markets
    * ETFs
    * European Markets
   
    * Funds
    * Global Market Data
    * Rates & Bonds
    * Stocks
    * U.S. Markets
    * Wealth
    * Macro Matters
   
   Latest in Markets
    * Fitch downgrades Kenya after revenue policy reversal
      12:20 AM GMT+2
      
    * Global stocks plunge, bond prices rally as US data spooks
      August 2, 2024
      article with gallery
    * TSX falls sharply for second day as US jobs data spooks investors
      August 2, 2024
      
    * South African rand firms on dollar slump, US rate cut bets
      August 2, 2024
      

 * Sustainability
   Browse Sustainability
    * Boards, Policy & Regulation
    * Climate & Energy
    * Land Use & Biodiversity
    * Society & Equity
    * Sustainable Finance & Reporting
    * The Switch
    * Reuters Impact
   
   Latest in Sustainability
    * China issues guidelines to promote consumption of services
      7 min ago
      
    * Hungary's competition watchdog fines Wizz Air for misleading communication
      11:34 AM GMT+2
      
    * Floods, mudslides kill 2 in southwest China, destroy homes, bridge
      8:30 AM GMT+2
      
    * Britain to tap $1 bln of 'dormant' cash for social and green projects
      2:43 AM GMT+2
      

 * Legal
   Browse Legal
    * Government
    * Legal Industry
    * Litigation
    * Transactional
    * US Supreme Court
   
   Latest in Legal
    * Music labels' AI lawsuits create new copyright puzzle for US courts
      36 min ago
      
    * Pentagon chief revokes plea deals with three Sept. 11 suspects
      10:59 AM GMT+2
      article with video
    * Silicon Valley Bank's former owner gains approval to end bankruptcy
      2:47 AM GMT+2
      
    * More than 50 US lawmakers, 21 states back DOJ in TikTok lawsuit
      2:00 AM GMT+2
      

 * Breakingviews
   Browse Breakingviews
    * Breakingviews Predictions
   
   Latest in Breakingviews
    * Exxon’s dominance may not be good for Exxon
      August 2, 2024
      
    * BNP’s AXA deal is a logical use of spare cash
      August 2, 2024
      
    * Stronger yen is the least of Toyota’s problems
      August 2, 2024
      
    * Meta joins corporate 'profit-to-fines' club
      August 2, 2024
      

 * Technology
   Browse Technology
    * Artificial Intelligence
    * Cybersecurity
    * Space
    * Disrupted
   
   Latest in Technology
    * Music labels' AI lawsuits create new copyright puzzle for US courts
      36 min ago
      
    * China probes official of state-run nuclear firm for suspected violations
      10:52 AM GMT+2
      
    * Meta in talks to use voices of Judi Dench, Awkwafina for A.I., NYT says
      6:39 AM GMT+2
      
    * More than 50 US lawmakers, 21 states back DOJ in TikTok lawsuit
      2:00 AM GMT+2
      

 * Investigations
 * More
   Sports
    * Olympics
    * Athletics
    * Baseball
    * Basketball
    * Cricket
    * Cycling
    * Formula 1
    * Golf
    * NFL
    * NHL
    * Soccer
    * Tennis
   
   Science
   Lifestyle
   Graphics
   Pictures
   Podcasts
   Fact Check
   Video
   Sponsored Content
    * Reuters Plus
    * Press Releases
   
   Trending Stories
    * Worldcategory
      Children of freed sleeper agents learned they were Russians on the flight,
      Kremlin says
      article with video
    * Sportscategory
      Boxing association to award prize money to Carini despite Olympic loss to
      Khelif
      
    * Boards, Policy & Regulationcategory
      US FDA says all doses of Lilly's weight-loss and diabetes drug are now
      available
      article with gallery
    * Trump agrees to Fox News offer of debate with VP Harris on Sept. 4
      

My News

Sign InRegister

 * Africa


GLOBAL FOOD MONITOR SAYS FAMINE HAS TAKEN HOLD IN SUDAN'S DARFUR

By Maggie Michael, Lena Masri, Ryan Mcneill and Deborah Nelson
August 1, 20247:25 PM GMT+2Updated 2 days ago
Text
 * Small Text
 * Medium Text
 * Large Text

Share
 * X
 * Facebook
 * Linkedin
 * Email
 * Link

A boy sits atop a hill overlooking a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border,
November 9, 2023. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights,
opens new tab
 * Summary

 * Famine determination is just third in 20 years
 * Experts have warned of famine risk in 14 areas of Sudan
 * Warring military factions accused of hampering aid
 * Conflict has caused massive displacement

CAIRO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The war in Sudan and restrictions on aid deliveries
have caused famine in at least one site in North Darfur, and have likely led to
famine conditions in other parts of the conflict region, a committee of food
security experts said in a report on Thursday.
The finding, linked to an internationally recognised standard known as the
Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), is just the third time a
famine classification has been made since the system was set up 20 years ago.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue

It shows how starvation and disease are taking a deadly toll in Sudan, where
more than 15 months of war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support
Forces (RSF) have created the world's biggest internal displacement crisis and
left 25 million people - or half the population - in urgent need of humanitarian
aid.
Experts and U.N. officials say a famine classification could trigger a U.N.
Security Council resolution empowering agencies to deliver relief across borders
to the most needy.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue

In its report, opens new tab, the Famine Review Committee (FRC) found that
famine, confirmed when acute malnutrition and mortality criteria are met, was
ongoing in North Darfur's Zamzam camp for Internally Displaced People (IDPs) and
likely to persist there at least until October.
Zamzam has a population of 500,000. It is near the city of al-Fashir, home to
1.8 million people and the last significant holdout from the RSF across Darfur.
The RSF has been besieging the area and no aid has reached the sprawling camp
for months.

The primary causes of famine in Zamzam camp are conflict and severely restricted
humanitarian access, the FRC said.
It said it was plausible that similar conditions were affecting other areas in
Darfur including the displaced persons camps of Abu Shouk and Al Salam.
In late June, an IPC process led by the Sudanese government found that 14 areas
in the country, including parts of El Gezira, Kordofan and Khartoum states, were
at risk of famine.

In a statement on Thursday Islamic Relief, a charity, said it saw rising numbers
of children needing treatment in clinics across Darfur and other parts of Sudan.
"It is not too late for them, but time is running out," it said.
Reuters has reported that some Sudanese have been forced to eat leaves and soil,
and that satellite imagery showed cemeteries expanding fast as starvation and
disease spread.

A Reuters analysis of satellite images identified 14 burial grounds in Darfur
that had expanded rapidly in recent months. One cemetery in Zamzam grew 50%
faster in the period between March 28 and May 3 than in the preceding
three-and-a-half months. The FRC used the analysis as indirect evidence of
increasing mortality.


LEAN SEASON

The FRC finding comes during Sudan's lean season, when food availability is
lowest. Experts fear that even when harvest season comes in October, crops will
be scarce because war prevented farmers from planting.
Sudan's war erupted in mid-April last year from a power struggle between Sudan's
army and the RSF ahead of a planned transition towards civilian rule.
The factions had staged a coup in 2021 that derailed a previous transition
following the overthrow of autocrat Omar al-Bashir two years earlier.
During the war, aid workers say international relief has been blocked by the
army and looted by the RSF. Both sides deny impeding aid.
In February, the army-backed government prohibited aid deliveries from Chad to
Darfur through the Adre border crossing, one of the shortest routes to the
hunger-stricken region. Government officials have claimed that the crossing is
used by the RSF to move weapons.
The alternative Tine border crossing is currently inaccessible because of heavy
rain, according to the U.N. humanitarian agency, OCHA.
The FRC called for a ceasefire and "unhindered access" into Darfur.


'ILL-WISHERS'

Sudan's government has signalled its opposition to any famine declaration.
Al-Harith Idriss, Sudan's envoy at the U.N., said in late June that a famine
"dictated from above" could lead "ill-wishers to intervene in Sudan".
The famine review was strongly opposed by the Sudanese government, sources
familiar with the matter said. FEWS NET, a U.S.-funded organization and IPC
partner that issued its own findings, opens new tab on Thursday, was the first
to request activation of a review.
Nicholas Haan, a member of the FRC and cofounder of the IPC, said he hoped the
finding would "shake people, the power brokers, to respond as they need to".
"And that means humanitarian access, that means funding at the level that needs
to be funded … and it means all due political pressure to end the conflict."
The IPC, which includes U.N. agencies, regional bodies and aid groups, is the
main global system for measuring food crises. Its most extreme warning is Phase
5, which has two levels, catastrophe and famine.
Criteria for famine include at least 20% of the population suffering extreme
food shortages, 30% of children being acutely malnourished and two people in
every 10,000 dying daily from starvation or from malnutrition and disease.
In Zamzam, the FRC said data from Médecins Sans Frontières on acute malnutrition
from January 2024 revealed rates exceeding the IPC famine threshold, while the
mortality rate reached 1.9 deaths in every 10,000 people per day.
Since the IPC process began, famine has been classified in parts of Somalia in
2011 and in parts of South Sudan in 2017.

The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start
your day. Sign up here.

Reporting by Maggie Michael, Deborah Nelson, Lena Masri and Ryan McNeill;
Writing by Aidan Lewis; Editing by Peter Hirschberg and Giles Elgood

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

Share
 * X
 * Facebook
 * Linkedin
 * Email
 * Link

Purchase Licensing Rights


READ NEXT

 * article with gallery
   AfricacategorySomalia beach attack kills 32 civilians, police say
 * EnvironmentcategorySudan's famine-stricken Zamzam camp hit by devastating
   floods
 * article with video
   AfricacategoryNigerian police may seek army help after violent protests
 * IndiacategoryState Bank of India reports $2 bln Q1 profit on strong loan
   growth
 * article with gallery
   AfricacategoryAt least eight dead in beach attack in Somalia's capital, says
   ambulance service
 * article with gallery
   AfricacategoryTunisian presidential candidates complain of restrictions and
   intimidation




WORLD


 * AIR FRANCE EXTENDS SUSPENSION OF PARIS-BEIRUT FLIGHTS UNTIL AUG 6
   
   Middle Eastcategory · August 3, 2024 · 1:41 PM GMT+2 · 5 min ago
   
   Air France said on Saturday it and its affiliate Transavia were further
   extending their suspensions of flights between Paris and Beirut until at
   least Aug 6, amid rising regional tensions.

 * Middle EastcategoryIran says Hamas leader Haniyeh was killed by 'short-range
   projectile'1:35 PM GMT+2 · Updated 11 min ago
 * article with gallery
   EuropecategoryExchanged prisoner Yashin condemns his 'illegal expulsion' from
   Russia1:17 PM GMT+2 · Updated 28 min ago
 * article with gallery
   AfricacategorySomalia beach attack kills 32 civilians, police say1:15 PM
   GMT+2 · Updated 30 min ago
 * article with gallery
   Middle EastcategoryIsraeli airstrike kills 5 in West Bank, including Hamas
   commander - Palestinian media12:32 PM GMT+2




SITE INDEX


LATEST

 * Home
 * Authors
 * Topic sitemap


BROWSE

 * World
 * Business
 * Markets
 * Sustainability
 * Legal
 * Breakingviews
 * Technology
 * Investigations
 * Sports
 * Science
 * Lifestyle


MEDIA

 * 
   Videos
 * 
   Pictures
 * 
   Graphics


ABOUT REUTERS

 * About Reuters, opens new tab
 * Careers, opens new tab
 * Reuters News Agency, opens new tab
 * Brand Attribution Guidelines, opens new tab
 * Reuters Leadership, opens new tab
 * Reuters Fact Check
 * Reuters Diversity Report, opens new tab


STAY INFORMED

 * Download the App (iOS), opens new tab
 * Download the App (Android), opens new tab
 * Newsletters


INFORMATION YOU CAN TRUST

Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest
multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day.
Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to
professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry
events and directly to consumers.


FOLLOW US

 * X
 * Facebook
 * Instagram
 * Youtube
 * Linkedin


THOMSON REUTERS PRODUCTS

 * WESTLAW, OPENS NEW TAB
   
   BUILD THE STRONGEST ARGUMENT RELYING ON AUTHORITATIVE CONTENT,
   ATTORNEY-EDITOR EXPERTISE, AND INDUSTRY DEFINING TECHNOLOGY.

 * ONESOURCE, OPENS NEW TAB
   
   THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO MANAGE ALL YOUR COMPLEX AND EVER-EXPANDING
   TAX AND COMPLIANCE NEEDS.

 * CHECKPOINT, OPENS NEW TAB
   
   THE INDUSTRY LEADER FOR ONLINE INFORMATION FOR TAX, ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
   PROFESSIONALS.


LSEG PRODUCTS

 * WORKSPACE, OPENS NEW TAB
   
   ACCESS UNMATCHED FINANCIAL DATA, NEWS AND CONTENT IN A HIGHLY-CUSTOMISED
   WORKFLOW EXPERIENCE ON DESKTOP, WEB AND MOBILE.

 * DATA CATALOGUE, OPENS NEW TAB
   
   BROWSE AN UNRIVALLED PORTFOLIO OF REAL-TIME AND HISTORICAL MARKET DATA AND
   INSIGHTS FROM WORLDWIDE SOURCES AND EXPERTS.

 * WORLD-CHECK, OPENS NEW TAB
   
   SCREEN FOR HEIGHTENED RISK INDIVIDUAL AND ENTITIES GLOBALLY TO HELP UNCOVER
   HIDDEN RISKS IN BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS AND HUMAN NETWORKS.

 * Advertise With Us, opens new tab
 * Advertising Guidelines
 * Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab

 * Cookies, opens new tab
 * Terms of Use
 * Privacy, opens new tab
 * Digital Accessibility, opens new tab
 * Corrections
 * Site Feedback, opens new tab

All quotes delayed a minimum of 15 minutes. See here for a complete list of
exchanges and delays.

© 2024 Reuters. All rights reserved






RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT UNDER GDPR

We and our 152 partners store and/or access information on a device, such as
unique IDs in cookies to process personal data. You may accept or manage your
choices by clicking below, including your right to object where legitimate
interest is used, or at any time in the privacy policy page. These choices will
be signaled to our partners and will not affect browsing data.Cookie
PolicyPrivacy Statement


WE AND OUR PARTNERS PROCESS DATA TO PROVIDE:

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for
identification. Store and/or access information on a device. Personalised
advertising and content, advertising and content measurement, audience research
and services development. List of Partners (vendors)

Allow All Reject All Show Purposes


Feedback