Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS-NET), a food security watchdog organization funded by USAID, reported that parts of the rebel-held areas of South Kordofan State in Sudan will experience dangerous food shortages through September.

The organization says that 40 percent of displaced people and host communities within the SPLM-N territories of the state are ‘food insecure’.

In its latest report, FEWS-NET stated that the SPLM-N areas in South Kordofan are experiencing the highest emergency levels of food insecurity in Sudan.

The organization forecasts that in SPLM-N controlled areas of South Kordofan, Crisis and Emergency (IPC Phase 3 and 4) levels of food insecurity will persist among 40 percent of IDPs and host community households through September 2014.  

Shortages are less severe in government-controlled areas, where most households are likely to face only stressed (IPC Phase 2) levels of food insecurity through September 2014.

This is due to the fact most vulnerable households in Government-controlled areas have relatively better access to markets and humanitarian assistance than in SPLM-N-controlled areas, according to FEWS NET.

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