An orphaned Sudanese child eats a free meal at a camp in eastern Chad in November. | REUTERS

Two-thirds of people facing food crises globally last year lived in just 10 countries, with a third of them in Sudan, Nigeria and Congo, a U.N.-backed yearly report said Friday.

Conflict remained the main driver of acute food insecurity, according to the Global Report on Food Crises, based on data from the United Nations, the European Union and humanitarian agencies.

And with conflicts and climate extremes "likely to sustain or worsen conditions in many countries," the outlook for 2026 is "bleak," it said.

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