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STORY: UN / SUDAN FOOD SECURITY
TRT: 02:24
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 13 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY / RECENT
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior UN headquarters
13 DECEMBER 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, dais, WFP spokesperson Leni Kinzli on screen
3. Med shot, journalist
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Leni Kinzli, Spokesperson in Sudan, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Today as WFP, we are warning of a looming hunger catastrophe by next year's lean season if we're unable to expand access and regularly deliver food assistance to people trapped in conflict hotspots such as Khartoum, the Darfur region in the West and the south central Kordofan region.”
5. Wide shot, dais, Kinzli on screen
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Leni Kinzli, Spokesperson in Sudan, World Food Programme (WFP):
“So, this new analysis shows the highest level of hunger ever recorded during the harvest season, which is ongoing right now, and it's typically a period where more food is available. And if there's not a significant increase in food assistance, by the time the lean season arrives in May, conflict hotspots could see the emergence of catastrophic hunger or level 5 out of 5, the highest level on the Integrated Phase Classification Scale.”
7. Wide shot, dais, Kinzli on screen
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Leni Kinzli, Spokesperson in Sudan, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Regular and safe humanitarian access to civilians in areas worst hit by violence has, quite frankly, been inadequate. WFP has been able to take advantage of momentary lulls in fighting to reach families in greater Khartoum with food assistance, but we've only managed to reach the capital one time in the last three months, and only 1 in 5 people who WFP has identified as most urgently in need of food assistance in the Khartoum area has received food aid since the conflict started.”
9. Wide shot, dais, Kinzli on screen
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Leni Kinzli, Spokesperson in Sudan, World Food Programme (WFP):
“Definitely climate shocks have impacted Sudan quite a lot, and it's actually been one of the main drivers of food insecurity. In some seasons we see too much rainfall, in some seasons not enough. So, in some cases we're seeing droughts and then in some cases we're seeing over flooding like what happened in Khartoum in 2020. So, this is one of the major drivers of food insecurity - had previously been - and the conflict is exacerbating that.”
11.Wide shot, end of presser
A World Food Programme (WFP) spokesperson today (13 Dec) warned of “a looming hunger catastrophe by next year's lean season” in Sudan if access and regular delivery of food assistance to people trapped in conflict hotspots is not expanded.
The worst affected areas include the capital, Khartoum, as well as the Darfur region in the West and the south central Kordofan region.
Briefing via video teleconference from Sudan, WFP spokesperson Leni Kinzli said a new analysis shows “the highest level of hunger ever recorded during the harvest season, which is ongoing right now, and it's typically a period where more food is available.”
Kinzli said, “if there's not a significant increase in food assistance, by the time the lean season arrives in May, conflict hotspots could see the emergence of catastrophic hunger or level 5 out of 5, the highest level on the Integrated Phase Classification Scale.”
The spokesperson said, “regular and safe humanitarian access” to civilians in areas worst hit by violence has been “inadequate,” and noted that WFP “has been able to take advantage of momentary lulls in fighting to reach families in greater Khartoum with food assistance, but we've only managed to reach the capital one time in the last three months, and only 1 in 5 people who WFP has identified as most urgently in need of food assistance in the Khartoum area has received food aid since the conflict started.”
She said, “climate shocks have impacted Sudan quite a lot, and it's actually been one of the main drivers of food insecurity” in the past and added that “the conflict is exacerbating that.”
Conflict erupted across the country in the middle of April 2023. Hunger was already on the rise, with each year since 2020 registering record levels food insecurity which the ongoing fighting is now worsening. More than 6 million people are on the edge of famine and 20.3 million people – 42 percent of the population – face acute food insecurity.
