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Hello and welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service studios in London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning the program with the biggest, deepest humanitarian crisis in the world and the one that gets, relatively speaking, among the least attention of any of them.
It's Sudan.
And the news today from a consortium of UN and other agencies that famine is spreading across that war ravaged country.
The group known as the ipc, or to give it its full title, the Integrated Food Security Phase classification, says that five areas are already in famine in the west and south of Sudan.
A further five are expected to reach full blown famine by May next year.
We're going to hear first from Jan Eglin, director of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who's recently back from a trip to Darfur in Western Sudan.
First, what is actually meant by this precise classification of famine?
When hunger and starvation becomes famine, people die 2 per 10,000 or more per day.
Usually it's many more because the starvation has gone on so long that and that's what's happening now in Sudan.
I haven't seen for many years a place where it's now five areas with famine.