Attachments
Key messages
• In February 2024, an estimated 74 million people in the region were highly food insecure and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. This includes 58.2 million people, according to an IPC analysis of 10 of the 13 countries covered by the FSNWG, in addition to 15.8 million people in Ethiopia, based on the 2024 Ethiopia Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). Of these, 46.4 million were in seven of the eight IGAD member states.
• Sudan's food crisis is expected to continue deepening, driven by constrained food availability, interruptions in trade routes and markets, high commodity prices, livelihood disruptions, constrained humanitarian access, and widespread displacement.
• The nutrition situation across the region remained a major source of concern, with 13.1 million children under the age of five estimated to be acutely malnourished, 3.2 million of them severely so.
• The number of forcibly displaced persons in the region continued to rise, with an estimated 18.59 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and 5.24 million refugees and asylum seekers.
Sudan is experiencing the world's largest displacement crisis, with more than 11.4 million people displaced both within and beyond its borders, 8.4 million of whom have been displaced since the outbreak of the ongoing conflict.
• Wetter-than-normal conditions are forecast over most parts of the region, specifically over southern Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda and north-western Tanzania during the 2024 March-May (MAM) rainfall season.