Title Daily Noon Briefing Highlights: South Sudan - Yemen - Fiji
16 Dec 2020
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A joint Inter-Cluster Coordination Group mission to Naivasha camp for internally displaced people in Wau County, Western Bahr el Ghazal State, South Sudan, October 2020.
Credit: Luluwa Ali
South Sudan
Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock yesterday briefed the Security Council on the humanitarian situation in South Sudan, highlighting worsening food insecurity.
He noted that millions of South Sudanese have been pushed to a breaking point. Violence, flooding, COVID-19 and a deteriorating economy are making an already bad humanitarian crisis much worse.
Humanitarian agencies and non-governmental organizations in South Sudan are scaling up response across sectors. The World Food Programme (WFP) has expanded its air fleet, to get food, nutrition and health services delivered more quickly in a challenging logistical and securit