More than 40 percent of Sudan’s population is facing acute hunger, according to a report by a global hunger monitor, the three-year civil war having created one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.Nearly 19.5 million Sudanese people are facing such dire circumstances, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said on Thursday.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of listSudan’s three-year civil war, between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and its rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions in the country, has also begot tremendous levels of hunger and famine.The IPC report stated that 14 areas in the country’s North Darfur, South Darfur, and South Kordofan states remain at risk of famine, where 135,000 people face “catastrophic” levels of hunger.Those areas include the cities of el-Fasher and Kadugli, judged last year to be experiencing famine largely as a result of sieges by the RSF.But in October, the RSF completed their takeover of el-Fasher, largely emptying the city, while this year the army broke the siege of Kadugli.As a result of the hunger crisis, families have been forced into “very negative coping mechanisms”, said Grace Oongee, from the Norwegian Refugee Council.“We’ve had reports of families who’ve been forced to eat leaves, who’ve been forced to eat animal feed, even reports of families breaking into slaughterhouses that have been closed down just to get the skin of the animals to be able to eat and to survive,” Oonge told Al Jazeera, speaking from the city of Po …
