DarfurHundreds are dead, mostly children, a UN-backed monitor said.
Almost 29 million people, 62% of Sudan’s population, are eating less or going hungry.
El Niño makes air sink over the Sahel, cutting rain, and 90% of Sudan’s farming depends on rain.
“The gap means right now we are unable to keep people alive,” said Manon Radosta of CARE.
Families cannot store food from a spotty harvest before the rains return in June.
How each outlet framed it
- New Scientist leans critical
- foregrounds the child death toll from starvation and disease, and the risk of famine in Darfur's camps, over the drought's cause
Sources: New Scientist