Sudan's civil war continues unabated, with the United Nations labelling it the cause of the world's deadliest famine in four decades. With over 150,000 lives lost and more than 14 million people displaced, including two million fleeing to neighbouring countries like Chad, Ethiopia, and South Sudan, Sudan epitomises a neglected global crisis.

Famine has spread across war-torn Sudan and is projected to expand even further, a UN-backed assessment said on Tuesday, with refugee camps and

The world’s leading experts on hunger, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee, found that famine has spread in Sudan.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is alarmed by the rapidly worsening food security situation in Sudan and calls for the parties to facilitate access to humanitarian assistance, his spokesperson said in a statement on Tuesday.

According to the U.N. nearly 14 million people have been displaced and more than 24,000 people have been killed in Sudan's war.