Grappling with hunger crises from Gaza to Sudan, IPC helps standardize who’s starving and why. An (over)due tool in famine-besieged regions.
Updated assessments show 7.8 million South Sudan residents, 1.24 million in Lebanon, and rising numbers in DRC, Yemen, and Gaza facing high to extreme hunger. Conflict, climate shocks, displacement, and funding shortfalls are driving a widening global food-security crisis with famine feared in several areas.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has warned that nearly 19.5 million people in Sudan face some level of food insecurity, with 135,000 in Phase 5 (catastrophic hunger). Conditions are expected to worsen in the June–September lean season, and 825,000 children under five are at risk of severe malnutrition in 2026, up from last year. Violence, displacements, and access limitations are driving the crisis, though no area is yet in famine.