South Sudan’s aid crisis deepens as food stocks run low
More than one million people could lose life-saving aid by October as funding shrinks and arrivals from Sudan continue. Renk, South Sudan – The arrivals begin before dawn. Women carry children and plastic bags; men walk...
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Here is the latest breaking news from around the world: More than one million people could lose life-saving aid by October as funding shrinks and arrivals from Sudan continue. Renk, South Sudan – The arrivals begin before dawn. Women carry children and plastic bags; men walk with almost nothing.
Every week, about 3,000 refugees and returnees cross into South Sudan from Sudan. Many arrive hungry, exhausted and with little or no money. But the food assistance they depend on is also running out.
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More than one million vulnerable people could lose access to life-saving food and nutrition assistance by October unless additional resources are secured, according to the World Food Programme (WFP). In Malakal, one of the agency’s key logistics hubs in the Upper Nile state, food stocks have fallen from 10,000 metric tonnes at this time last year to less than 300 tonnes now. The drop comes as humanitarian agencies face shrinking resources while needs continue to rise, WFP says.
WFP assistant executive director Matthew Hollingworth visited Renk and Malakal in Upper Nile and Pigi county in Jonglei state this month, where he witnessed firsthand the pressures facing communities already struggling with conflict, displacement, hunger and climate shocks. Hollingworth told that the war in Sudan had driven up prices and put additional pressure on a country already stretched by the influx of refugees. “The war in Sudan has been catastrophic for the north of this country.
Prices have gone so much higher due to the complexity of importing goods from Sudan,” he said. “Moreover, the influx of refugees to a country that is really stretched when it comes to helping them. ” In Renk, Hollingworth saw the effects of drought alongside areas still affected by flooding.
“It all comes at the time when the international community has a lot less to give, and we don’t have the same resources we used to have,” he told .
The development has drawn wide international attention, with diplomatic circles watching closely.
