Experts warn famine conditions spreading in Sudan’s Darfur region

A global hunger monitoring group says famine is spreading in Sudan’s war-torn North Darfur state, impacting two more towns there.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative says the latest data shows “thresholds for acute malnutrition have now been surpassed” in Um Baru and Kernoi, near the border with Chad.

Its experts say the famine spread after the fall of the state capital, el-Fasher, to the paramilitary…