South Sudan: Flash Update on the humanitarian response scale-up (As of 31 December 2020)
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BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW
Based on findings of people’s food security and nutrition projections for 2021 reflected in the reports released in mid December, humanitarian organizations in South Sudan commenced a scale-up of lifesaving operations. The multi-sectoral response focuses on vulnerable people in areas of most severe acute food insecurity including Pibor, Akobo, Aweil South, Tonj East, Tonj North and Tonj South. It seeks to provide food and livelihoods assistance, health and nutrition support, protection services, logistics and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) support to the most vulnerable people including over 300,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition and some 480,000 pregnant or breastfeeding women who are acutely malnourished and in need of treatment. The focus of the humanitarian response is to provide complementary, integrated support for people in the a
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S. Sudan: Aid Efforts Ramped Up As Millions Face Hunger
Deterioration of food security situation in South Sudan alarming, needs immediate action, says UN official. The UN and other aid agencies will be scaling up food assistance in South Sudan in the coming months with the aim of saving more than 7 million lives, a top UN official said on Saturday. The deterioration of the food security situation in the country is alarming and will require immediate action, said Alain Noudehou, UN humanitarian coordinator in South Sudan. This year, with generous contributions from donors and funding from the UN s Central Emergency Response Fund and the South Sudan Humanitarian Fund, UN agencies and NGOs – many of them South Sudanese have worked diligently to provide humanitarian support.