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UN agencies' alarm at worsening hunger in South Sudan - South Sudan

UN agencies’ alarm at worsening hunger in South Sudan
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Conflict, floods and COVID-19 push more people into extreme hunger
JUBA – Three United Nations organizations are calling for immediate humanitarian access to parts of South Sudan’s Pibor County in Jonglei State, where people have run out of food and are facing catastrophic levels of hunger according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today.
The high levels of hunger are being driven by insecurity, the effects of COVID-19, the economic crisis, and the impact of flooding on livelihoods, the report said. Humanitarian assistance is needed to save lives and avert a total collapse of livelihoods in hard-to-reach areas. ....

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UN agencies' alarmed at worsening hunger in South Sudan

UN agencies’ alarmed at worsening hunger in South Sudan
Conflict, floods and COVID-19 push more people into extreme hunger
18 December 2020
UNICEF/UNI375881/Ryeng
17-month-old Ajaba Ombacha is assessed to be suffering from severe acute malnutrition and is now doing an appetite test in the examination room in a flooded Verteth. September 2020
JUBA, 18 December 2020 – Three United Nations organizations are calling for immediate humanitarian access to parts of South Sudan’s Pibor County in Jonglei State, where people have run out of food and are facing catastrophic levels of hunger according to a new Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report released today. ....

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Revealed: The four countries on facing famine in 2020

Revealed: The four countries facing famine in 2020
The number of people who are acutely food insecure globally has gone up by 82 per cent as a result of Covid-19, the UN says
17 December 2020 • 11:48am
Kombangako Mawa, 19 months old, is suffering from malnutrition and has been in hospital for a month in Juba, South Sudan
Credit: Sam Mednick /AP
Millions in South Sudan are on the edge of starvation, the United Nations has warned, with multiple famines looming in a number of other countries as well.
Across the globe millions have been left starving as the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing food insecurity linked to conflict and climate change. ....

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South Sudan's peace process 'linked to strength of international engagement', Special Representative tells Security Council - South Sudan

South Sudan’s peace process ‘linked to strength of international engagement’, Special Representative tells Security Council
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After much progress in the peace process in South Sudan earlier in 2020, implementation is now lagging and needs urgent attention from the international community, the United Nations top official in that country told the Security Council today.
“Momentum in South Sudan’s peace process is linked to the strength of international engagement,” David Shearer, Special Representative for the Secretary-General and head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said in a briefing on developments since September.
Introducing the Secretary-General’s latest 90-day report (document S/2020/1180) on the newly independent and conflict-steeped country, he said that 2020 saw the formation of a transitional Government, created through compromise by the parties and led by President Salva Kiir with First Vice-President ....

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Famine likely in South Sudan: Christian Aid calls on UK Government to prioritise peacebuilding - South Sudan

Famine likely in South Sudan: Christian Aid calls on UK Government to prioritise peacebuilding
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15 Dec 2020
A report last week by international food security experts shows that six counties in South Sudan are on the brink of famine . As we mark the seven year anniversary of the beginning of the last civil war, Christian Aid is asking for the Government to use the full weight of its merged powers in the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) not only to call for improved humanitarian access, but to urge for the rapid implementation of the peace agreement as it believes that delays are one of the main causes of the food crisis. ....

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