Sudan's Hunger Does Not Need a Famine Label
Bread is getting scarcer and dearer across Sudan, aid agencies are being cut back, and more than 30 governments have just warned that famine could return within months. Sudan's own foreign ministry has called the food situation reassuring. The argument over the word famine is real, but it risks hiding something simpler. People are already going hungry on both sides of the front line, and the institutions that should treat them are being bombed.