The Sudan | Revised humanitarian response (May–December 2020)
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About 9.3 million people in the Sudan were already in need of humanitarian assistance prior to COVID-19. Since the economic shock of South Sudan’s secession in 2011, the Sudanese economy has been in a downward spiral that the country has since struggled to stabilize. Political instability; conflict in the states of Blue Nile, Darfur and Southern Kordofan; poor basic infrastructure; and the reliance of much of the population on subsistence agriculture, has kept close to half of the population at or below the poverty line. The COVID-19 pandemic has further aggravated and compounded the already fragile situation, which is exacerbated by climate-induced disasters such as floods and droughts and food chain crises (desert locust and other plant and animal pests and diseases), with the annual inflation rate in the Sudan climbing to its highest level in almost 25 years since its emergence. In the framework of FAO’s Corporate COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and the United Nations Global Humanitarian Response Plan for COVID-19, FAO has revised its humanitarian response for 2020 to mitigate the effects of the pandemic and address the needs of the most vulnerable households.