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Published Jun 29, 2024

Comments to the media by Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith, Permanent Representative of the Republic of the Sudan, on the situation in the Country at the Security Council Stakeout.

Commenting on the recent IPC report on Sudan's food insecurity, the country’s Ambassador Al-Harith Idriss Al-Harith said, “The report did not clearly mention any adequate indicators of famine in Sudan. We believe that the data collection by IPC from the States occupied by the RSF militia is unreliable and unconvincing.”

The Sudanese Ambassador spoke to reporters today (28 Jun) in New York.

He said that the IPC report is “merely depending on old data from UN agencies and organizations.”

Ambassador Al-Harith also said, “Our recommendations are accordingly we agree with the report that there are people who are in need of food. An intervention more than others should be supported to protect them from falling into famine or experiencing dire famine. More than 8.1 million people are displaced in the States under the government control should be supported because they can easily be provided, have access to aid.”

He concluded, “If we open specific border between Chad and Sudan, this will be opening Pandora's box because there will be smuggling of arms to the area controlled by the RSF militia in that area and the Sudanese armed forces do not have any checkpoints in that area.”

A new report released on Thursday (27 Jun) by Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) stated that fourteen months into the conflict, Sudan is facing the worst levels of acute food insecurity ever recorded by in the country, with over half of the population (25.6M people) facing crisis or worse conditions (IPC Phase 3 or above) between June and September 2024, coinciding with the lean season. This includes 755,000 people in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) in 10 states including Greater Darfur (all five states), South and North Kordofan, Blue Nile, Al Jazirah, and Khartoum. Another 8.5M people (18 percent of the population) face Emergency (IPC Phase 4).