amy: how is this remedied, alex de waal?y 230,000 children, pregnant mothers, and new mothers could die it is been predicted in the next months due to hunger. >> indeed, this is the largest sort of mass mortality crisis that we are facing in the world. the largest we have probably faced for many decades. certainly, the largest since i started working on this topic 40 years ago at the time of the ethiopian and sudanese famines that many will remember from the live aid concerts. how is it to be stopped? the two most immediate things are a ceasefire and the end to the destruction of what is necessary to sustain life and produce food in sudan. there doesn't seem to be much sign of that. there is not much pressure on the warring parties to come to any sort of even basic agreement. they seem to what to continue to fight it out. various countries are pouring in arms into the country to escalate the conflict. but the other is also to fund this humanitarian operation, as you mentioned, is totally underfunded at the moment. they are a