Overview

• Thirteen global hunger hotspots have been identified, with five areas—Sudan, the Gaza Strip, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali—at extreme risk of famine.
• In Sudan, confirmed famine conditions persist as conflict and displacement drive 12.4 million people into acute food insecurity and push over one million to seek refuge in South Sudan.
• Military operations in the Gaza Strip and bureaucratic barriers have severely constrained aid delivery, endangering nearly 470,000 people with catastrophic levels of hunger.
• Humanitarian agencies face a critical funding gap, securing less than 10 percent of the $12.2 billion necessary for food assistance and recovery support.
• Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar and Nigeria are also classified as very high concern hotspots, while a handful of countries have improved enough to exit the list.