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FAO and global food monitor team quoted on Thursday (1 July),Causes of war Sudan had affected famine at camp and outside displaced people in North Darfur, and similar conditions may exist elsewhere every region.
However, finding comes amid a deepening hunger crisis across Sudan triggered by war between two military factions, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which erupted on 15 April 2023.
In the cosequences, Famine is assessed by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an initiative of more than a dozen U.N. agencies, regional bodies and aid groups.
It is the main global system for measuring the severity of food crises. Its most extreme warning is Phase 5, which has two levels, catastrophe and famine.
For famine to be declared, at least 20% of the population in an area must be suffering extreme food shortages, with 30% of children acutely malnourished and two people out of every 10,000 dying daily from starvation or malnutrition and disease.
If the IPC or one of its partners finds that at least one area is in famine, a famine review committee (FRC), led by up to six experts, is activated.
Famine has been declared twice since the process was created: in parts of Somalia in 2011 and in parts of South Sudan in 2017.
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