Tearfund statement on today s UN s South Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview: Highest levels of food insecurity and malnutrition since independence 10 years ago.
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16 Mar 2021
Today, in the 2021 South Sudan Humanitarian Needs Overview, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs announced that $1.7 billion is needed to reach 6.6 million people with urgent life-saving assistance and protection by the end of the year.
Anthony Rama, Tearfund’s South Sudan Country Director said,
“South Sudan is facing the growing threat of famine. Where before people would make supplies last longer by skipping lunch, now there is no lunch to skip. What was planted last season was washed away by the floods and we fear the same could happen again. About half the population is in dire need of food assistance. We have endured years of intercommunal conflicts and now COVID has disrupted trade and weakened our fragile health system’s ability to treat people.
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