The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that “desperation” was pushing scores of Sudanese to resort to eating grass and tree leaves as war-induced food insecurity continues to grip the East African country. The UN programme said that malnutrition among children was reaching “alarming levels”, as humanitarian relief agencies were faced with increasing challenges in delivering adequate amounts of aid to those impacted by the ongoing civil war in Sudan. In a statement posted on X on Sunday, the WFP stressed that it was “urgently expanding its emergency food and nutrition assistance” and is “wor…