Sudan: Darfur Farmers Warn of Impending Famine As Season Falters

Mershing / Ed Daein — Farmers in Mershing in South Darfur are warning of famine if humanitarian organisations do not intervene to provide aid. They say that the need is especially acute as the agricultural season threatens to collapse due to pastoralist encroachments by driving livestock into farms. Swarms of locusts also threaten to devastate crops in East Darfur.

The farmers complained to Radio Dabanga that herders routinely drive livestock into their farms, which destroys agricultural crops….