El Niño drought on top of war is pushing Darfur and Kordofan toward famine, hunger monitor warns

L2Who’s affected

Displaced families and children. In Greater Darfur, 13 of 17 nutrition surveys since January found critical acute malnutrition; in Eastern Jebel Marra, two displacement camps were above famine thresholds. More than 300,000 people have been displaced in Greater Kordofan since October 2025.

L3Why it’s quiet

We don’t have media-coverage data for this story yet, so we won’t guess why it was quiet. It is here because the outlets below reported it and it drew little wider attention.

L4Deeper impact

Aid is not keeping up. As of 8 October, less than half of Sudan’s humanitarian appeal was funded, and only 26 per cent of children expected to need treatment for severe acute malnutrition with complications had received it by August.

L5Full context

Aid itself is being hit: on 3 October an airstrike struck two marked WFP-contracted food trucks between Dilling and Kadugli in South Kordofan, killing a driver.

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