WFP Sudan External Situation Report February 2025

In Numbers February 2025

3.2 million people assisted

1.4 million people reached with food deliveries

1.4 million people received Cash-Based Transfers

390k people supported with nutrition rations

89,000 school children provided take-homerations

Highlights

• WFP Sudan has finalized its 2025 Operational Plan, which aims to scale up operations, initially targeting up to 7 million people by mid-year, with progressive expansion throughout the year.

• The security and humanitarian situation in Zamzam camp near El Fasher, North Darfur, remains dire, marked by intense conflict, extreme food insecurity, and significant challenges for humanitarian organizations.

• In February alone, within the total of 3.2 million people assisted, WFP provided Cash-Based Transfers (CBT) to 1.4 million people, the highest number of people reached under this modality since the conflict began. WFP made significant breakthroughs in delivering CBT to South Kordofan and West Kordofan for the first time since the conflict started.

• This month, WFP also reached multiple Famine and risk of famine areas with CBT including in Gezira, Khartoum, North Darfur, South Kordofan and West Kordofan. Almost a third of the people reached received assistance through digital bank transfers, and the rest through value vouchers and commodity vouchers for hot meals in Gezira, Al Qadarif, Central Darfur, Kassala, Khartoum, North Darfur, Northern, Red Sea, River Nile, South Kordofan, West Darfur and West Kordofan. This scale-up reflects WFP’s adaptive strategy in responding to shifting access constraints and emerging needs, ensuring aid reaches those in even the most physically inaccessible locations.

• WFP continues to monitor the cholera outbreak in Kosti and a vaccination campaign took place on 24 February at the WFP office to immunize staff and their dependents.