The United Nations World Food Programme warned it will make drastic reductions to food aid for millions of Sudanese refugees unless it secures US$200 million in fresh funding within the next six months. Support in the Central African Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia and Libya could stop entirely as early as August, the agency said, while rations in Chad, South Sudan and Uganda are already being cut. More than four million people have fled Sudan’s two-year civil war, swelling camps across seven neighbouring countries. Egypt hosts about 1.5 million Sudanese, Chad nearly 850,000, and thousands continue to cross the border from Darfur each day. Many families arrive malnourished, with some refugees in Uganda surviving on fewer than 500 calories a day—less than a quarter of minimum daily needs. Inside Sudan, fighting between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces has pushed 24.6 million people into acute food insecurity, including 637,000 facing catastrophic hunger. The WFP says an additional US$575 million is required to sustain life-saving operations within the country and is urging donors to close the widening funding gap to prevent a further deterioration of the region’s largest displacement and hunger crisis.