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About 14.6 million people (20 percent of the analysed population) experienced high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) between February and March 2024. An estimated 14.3 million people are in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) and about 0.3 million people are in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency). High inflation, coupled with repeated climatic shocks as well as reduced income opportunities are putting high pressures on the poorest households and driving acute food insecurity in the analysed population. Urgent action is required to protect their livelihoods and reduce food consumption gaps. One fifth of the analysed districts were prone to natural shocks in 2023, while the majority had previously been classified between Moderate-to-Severe levels of chronic food insecurity (IPC Chronic Food Insecurity Level 3 and 4) (Source: Bangladesh Chronic Food Insecurity Situation 2019-2024 report).

About 14.6 million people (20 percent of the analysed population) experienced high levels of acute food insecurity, classified in IPC Phase 3 or above (Crisis or worse) between February and March 2024. An estimated 14.3 million people are in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis) and about 0.3 million people are in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency).

High inflation, coupled with repeated climatic shocks as well as reduced income opportunities are putting high pressures on the poorest households and driving acute food insecurity in the analysed population.

The food security and nutrition situation in Sudan has deteriorated significantly amidst escalating conflict, raising major concern. The IPC analysis released in December 2023 projected that, between October 2023 and February 2024, 17.7 million people in Sudan (37% of the population) faced high levels of acute food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 or above), of which 4.9 million (10%) were in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency). The unprecedented levels of acute food insecurity recorded by the IPC in 2023 have been driven by the devastating conflict that engulfed the country.

Security threats, roadblocks and protection concerns limit both the humanitarian response and assessments. Due to data gaps in hotspot areas and connectivity challenges, the Sudan IPC Technical Working Group (TWG) has not been in a position to update the IPC analysis released in December 2023. Consequently, this alert has been developed based on the review of the latest evidence available and issued to express major concern regarding the deteriorating situation; and advocate for stakeholders to act immediately to prevent famine. Since this IPC exercise, there has been a significant escalation of the conflict among armed factions and a rise in organized violence beyond the initial IPC assumptions made in previous analyses.

In the current period (February to March 2024), about 1.9 million people (12 percent of the population analysed) are classified in IPC Phase 3 or above in Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL), including about 300,000 people (2 percent of the population analysed) in IPC Phase 4 (Emergency) and 1.6 million people (10 percent of the population analysed) in IPC Phase 3 (Crisis).

This marks an improvement of 15 percent of the population that has moved to less severe classifications, mainly because of the seasonal performance of the 2023 MAM (March, April and May) rains followed by OND (October, November and December) rains, a positive harvest and improved livestock production and productivity across the ASALs.

Violence by armed groups has increased in recent months, pushing many more people to take refuge in places safer, with around 362,000 people currently displaced internally of the country, including nearly 50,000 in the last three months. Most of displaced people are leaving metropolitan areas (with around 17,000 people leaving Port-au-Prince) for the departments, leaving behind them their livelihoods and facing even more difficult situations vulnerable. This increase in armed attacks limits circulation
of goods and contributes to the increase in the prices of foodstuffs base.
This update shows a significant deterioration of the situation by compared to the previous projection made during the August 2023 analysis, with approximately 4.97 million people (50% of the analyzed population) facing high levels of acute food insecurity for
period from March to June 2024. This includes approximately 1.64 million people (17% of the population analyzed) classified in phase 4 of the IPC (Emergency), and another 3.32 million (33% of the population analyzed), classified in IPC phase 3 (Crisis).

The IPC acute food insecurity analysis conducted in December 2023 warned of a risk that Famine may occur by the end of
May 2024 if an immediate cessation of hostilities and sustained access for the provision of essential supplies and services
to the population did not take place. Since then, the conditions necessary to prevent famine have not been met and
the latest evidence confirms that Famine is imminent in the northern governorates and projected to occur anytime
between mid-March and May 2024.