KHARTOUM, May 10( Darfur24)The World Food Program (WFP) has warned that the continuation of violence in Sudan will lead to an increase in the number of hungry people by between 2 and 2.5 million people, bringing acute food insecurity to record levels and affecting more than 19 million people, or about 40% of the population. The United Nations program expected that the largest increase in food insecurity would occur in the states of West Darfur, West Kordofan, Blue Nile, Red Sea and North Darfur. In a press release ,WFP pointed to the high cost of food across the country, and expected an increase in basic food prices by 25 percent in the next three to six months. WFP said prices could rise further if farmers are unable to access their fields and grow basic foodstuffs between May and July. The fighting which broke out between the army and the Rapid Support Forces on the fifteenth of April – led to violence and insecurity, which forced the World Food Program to temporarily suspend its operations in Sudan, before resuming it again, reaching more than 35,000 people with food since last week. the necessary. The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service – run by the World Food Program – will begin regular flights between Port Sudan and Addis Ababa in Ethiopia to facilitate the safe transportation of frontline humanitarian workers as well as vital aid. The World Food Program will increase its emergency assistance to support 4.9 million people in need in areas where the security situation allows, in addition to preventing and treating moderate acute malnutrition for about 600,000 children under the age of five,pregnant and breastfeeding women.