
The WFP warns that nearly 19.5 million Sudanese face acute food insecurity, worsened by ongoing civil war, donor funding cuts, and fertiliser shortages caused by conflict in the Gulf and closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The convergence of regional war, economic disruption, and mass starvation mirrors the sequence of end-times conditions Jesus described as preceding His return — wars, famines, and cascading global crises arriving together. Scripture is explicit: 'There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains' (Matthew 24:7-8), a pattern now visibly accelerating across multiple continents simultaneously.