A coalition of major NGOs has warned that millions of people in Sudan are surviving on just one meal a day, with many resorting to eating leaves and animal feed, as the country's food crisis worsens into its third year of civil war. The report — by Action Against Hunger, CARE International, the International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, and the Norwegian Refugee Council — found conditions to be most severe in North Darfur and South Kordofan states, where deliberate destruction of farms and markets and the use of starvation as a weapon of war have systematically dismantled the food supply. The conflict, which began in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, has displaced more than 12 million people, left over 28 million facing acute food shortages, and prompted UN monitors to formally confirm famine conditions in several areas — making it one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.