This is a story we meant to link to last night, but trac­tor repairs got in the way. From the IRIN, an update on the human­i­tar­ian and hunger sit­u­a­tion in Sudan.

Recent assess­ments found that up to 1.3 mil­lion peo­ple were food inse­cure — an increase of 20 per­cent on ear­lier pro­jec­tions. Most of these were in Jon­glei and Eastern Equa­to­ria states where needs have tripled and dou­bled respec­tively, the Famine Early Warn­ing Sys­tems Net­work (Fews Net) said in a Sep­tem­ber update.

Cur­rent food inse­cu­rity, it added, would per­sist until late Octo­ber, when har­vests were expected. Despite pre­dic­tions of a high prob­a­bil­ity of nor­mal to above nor­mal rain­fall between Sep­tem­ber and Decem­ber, delayed crops were at risk of flood­ing — some­thing which is com­mon in South­ern Sudan.

“Per­sis­tent inter-clan and inter-tribal cat­tle raid­ing con­flicts since last year, and last year’s crop short­falls caused by June-August dry­ness fol­lowed by floods, have been the main causes of food inse­cu­rity,” it noted.

“Below aver­age rains from May through August have now damp­ened the prospects for recov­ery that were expected with the onset of the September-October har­vest, which has now been delayed.”

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