Famine is threatening more of war-torn Sudan’s Darfur region as an attack in the south kills 22

Famine is threatening more areas in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region, a global hunger monitoring group said Thursday as an attack by paramilitary forces on a military hospital in the country’s south killed 22 people, including the hospital’s director and three members of its medical staff. Since April 2023, Sudan has been in the throes of war after a power struggle erupted between the military and the powerful paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF. The conflict has triggered what the United Nations calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, released a new report saying that acute malnutrition has reached famine levels in two more towns in Darfur: Umm Baru and Kernoi. The attack Thursday in the town of Kouik in South Kordofan province also left eight people wounded. The U.N. estimates that more than 40,000 people have been killed in the war and more than 14 million people have been forced to flee their homes. Fighting has recently concentrated in various areas of Kordofan, where the Sudanese military has been attempting to break RSF sieges on towns like Kadugli and Dilling. In a separate incident this week, a drone attack on a medical center in Kadugli killed 15 people. The U.S. and UAE have pledged $700 million to a new Sudan Humanitarian Fund to address the crisis.