Multi Partner Real Time Quality Review: IPC Acute Food Insecurity Analysis (South Sudan, November 2020)
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The IPC Acute Food Insecurity analysis was conducted in South Sudan from October 26th to November 16th, 2020. Due to breakdown in technical consensus in relation to the estimation of populations in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) in six counties, on November 17th, the IPC South Sudan Technical Working Group (TWG) partners requested the IPC Global Support Unit (GSU) to conduct a Real Time Quality Review (RTQR) to assess the presence of population in IPC Phase 5 (Catastrophe) in the counties of Akobo, Aweil South, Pibor, Tonj East, Tonj North and Tonj South. During this process, the county of Pibor was found to present a very concerning situation, with some indicators surpassing the IPC Reference Table thresholds for IPC Phase 5 (Famine) and concerns over the estimation of the nutrition evidence reliability. The RTQR proceeded with the activation of the Famine Review Process on No
In this Thursday, December 17 photo, three-year-old Peter Sebit stands outside a health clinic in Pibor, South Sudan, waiting to get food supplements. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Deputy Administrator John Barsa has expressed concern about alarming hunger in South Sudan including children suffering from acute malnutrition. The United States is gravely concerned by the worsening food-security situation in the Republic of South Sudan, and reiterates calls for the Government of South Sudan to take urgent action to enable the humanitarian community to scale up assistance quickly.
He made the comment in a statement Thursday.
LEKUANGOLE, South Sudan (AP) â After nearly a week of hiding from conflict, Kallayn Keneng watched two of her young children die. They cried and cried and said, Mom, we need food, she said. But she had nothing to give. Too frail to bury her 5-year-old and 7-year-old after days without eating, she covered their bodies with grass and left them in the forest.
Now the mourning 40-year-old awaits food aid, one of more than 30,000 people said to be in likely famine in South Sudan s Pibor county. The new finding by international food security experts means this could be the first part of the world in famine since one was declared in 2017 in another part of the country then deep in civil war.
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‘Mum, we are hungry’: Woman watched two of her kids die
AP/Lekuangole, South Sudan Filed on December 24, 2020
Kallayn Keneng (front right) sits on the ground in Lekuangole town of South Sudan with three other women, all of who said their children starved to death when they were displaced from their villages due to fighting.
(AP)
Kidrich Korok cries in the yard outside her house in Lekuangole town, remembering her nine-year-old son Martin who she said starved to death in July.
(AP)
Too frail to bury her children after days without food, the South Sudanese woman covered their bodies with grass and left them in the forest