Sudan news: More than 750,000 at risk of famine, experts warn [Video]

Cairo, Egypt –

International experts portrayed a grim picture for war-torn Sudan in a report Thursday warning that 755,000 people are facing famine in the coming months, amid relentless clashes between rival generals.

The conflict has created a hunger catastrophe at a scale not seen since the Darfur conflict in the early 2000s, senior United Nations officials said.

The latest findings come from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, an initiative first set up in 2004 during the famine in Somalia that now includes more than a dozen UN agencies, aid groups, governments and other bodies.

The report said that 8.5 million people are facing extreme food shortages after 14 months of conflict in Sudan, and that hunger has spread to the capital, Khartoum, and Jazira province, once Sudan’s breadbasket.

The northeastern African country descended into chaos in April last year when simmering tensions between the country’s military, led by Gen. …