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Dire Food Insecurity in Sudan
The UN's World Food Programme in East Africa expressed extreme concern as the region faces a catastrophic situation with a massive scale of hunger and related diseases. A report from the Klingendale Institute outlined two scenarios, one estimating 500,000 deaths, and an extreme scenario projecting a million deaths due to almost no harvest in Sudan over the past year. The last harvest is down by 45%, accentuating worries about the worsening food insecurity in the region.
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