Summary

Hundreds of children have died of starvation and disease in a drought in Sudan caused by the record-breaking El Niño. The risk of this leading to a full-blown famine is growing. Almost half the country is experiencing drought, which in some areas is the worst in decades, according to a warning from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a partnership of the United Nations and charity organisations. As a result, crops are failing and people are dying in a “humanitarian catastrophe, already of historic proportions”, it said.

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