Overview

• The FAO-WFP Hunger Hotspots report identifies 13 countries at risk of acute food crises over the next five months, with Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali the most critical.
• Famine confirmed in Sudan in 2024 persists as ongoing conflict and displacement exacerbate food shortages across Greater Darfur and Kordofan.
• In the Gaza Strip, large-scale military operations and a commercial blockade hinder aid deliveries and threaten to push nearly half a million people into famine.
• South Sudan faces flooding and political instability, Haiti grapples with gang-violence-driven displacement and Mali struggles with soaring grain prices and armed conflict, contributing to catastrophic hunger.
• Aid operations are undermined by insecurity, bureaucratic hurdles and funding gaps, while Yemen, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar and Nigeria join the high-risk list as Ethiopia, Kenya and Lebanon improve.