{"id":317020,"date":"2025-09-23T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&#038;p=317020"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:48:37","slug":"unprecedented-hunger-twin-famines-in-gaza-and-sudan","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unprecedented-hunger-twin-famines-in-gaza-and-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented hunger: Twin famines in Gaza and Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>23 September 2025<\/p>\n<p>For the first time famine has been confirmed in two different parts of the world at the same time &#8211; the first ever famine in the Middle East, in Gaza, and in Sudan, where famine has persisted for over a year amid the largest hunger and displacement crisis on the planet. In this session panelists will discuss how experts determine when a famine is taking place, and what urgent actions are now needed from world leaders to save lives in Gaza and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Philippe Lazzarini, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA Commission-General<\/li>\n<li>Carl Skau, WFP Deputy Executive Director<\/li>\n<li>Edem Wosornu, OCHA Director Operations and Advocacy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Moderator:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ian Philips, Director, News and Media Division, Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Department of Global Communications<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe title=\"Unprecedented hunger: Twin famines in Gaza and Sudan - SDG Media Zone | United Nations\" width=\"1320\" height=\"743\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b1cwVKyDuuk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 23 September 2025 For the first time famine has been confirmed in two different parts of the world at the same time &#8211; the first ever famine in the Middle East, in Gaza, and in Sudan, where famine has persisted for over a year amid the largest hunger and displacement crisis on the planet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/unprecedented-hunger-twin-famines-in-gaza-and-sudan\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2377,2805],"document-source":[2169,6169,1817,2109],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2517,1945,5358,6996,2057,2005,1741,5200,6870,1745],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-317020","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-multimedia","document-category-video","document-source-office-for-the-coordination-of-humanitarian-affairs-ocha","document-source-united-nations-department-of-global-communications","document-source-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-for-palestine-refugees-in-the-near-east-unrwa","document-source-world-food-programme-wfp","document-subject-access-and-movement","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-ClosuresCurfewsBlockades","document-subject-famine","document-subject-food","document-subject-gaza-strip","document-subject-human-rights-and-international-humanitarian-law","document-subject-humanitarian-relief","document-subject-hunger","document-subject-refugees-and-displaced-persons","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317052,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/317020\/revisions\/317052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=317020"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=317020"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=317020"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=317020"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=317020"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=317020"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=317020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}