Sudan: Remarks As Delivered By WFP Assistant Executive Director Stephen Omollo At the Security Council Session On Sudan

New York — Thank you, Mr. President [His Excellency Mr. Michael Imran Kanu, PR of Sierra Leone], for this opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian disaster now unfolding in Sudan. Excellencies, the World Food Programme, and other humanitarian agencies, have been warning for months now of a widespread collapse in food security across the country.

We have been clear that famine is a real and dangerous possibility: caused by the raging conflict, widespread displacement, and above all…