An aid agency issued a"crisis alert" Tuesday over war-torn Sudan, calling out the international community for its failure to address the civil war that has raged there for over a year.

The International Rescue Committee warned that a risk of famine is looming and said the lack of any political solution has left Sudan on the brink of a “catastrophe of historic scale.”

“The world is not watching us, we are heading for famine, massive loss of life, and a failed state,” the IRC’s country director for Sudan, Eatizaz Yousif, told CBS News.