US Edition‘Children are bound to die’: Corruption, aid cuts and violence fuel a hunger crisis in South Sudan
Corruption has diverted billions of dollars and cuts to aid funding have forced layoffs, worsening malnutrition among 2.3 million South Sudanese children needing treatment, UN reports.
- Approximately 2.3 million children under 5 in South Sudan need treatment for acute malnutrition, with over 700,000 in severe condition, according to a recent U.N.-backed report.
- Funding cuts this spring led Save the Children to lay off 180 staff, including 15 nutrition workers in Bor, impacting aid efforts.
- Twenty-Two percent of children admitted for malnutrition at Juba's largest children's hospital have died of hunger.
- The U.N. Commission on Human Rights reported that billions of dollars have been lost to corruption, which is a major factor in the country's crisis.
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In South Sudan, U.S. aid cuts add to list of life-threatening challenges
As of 2024, nine million people in South Sudan, or more than 70 per cent of the population, were dependent on some form of foreign assistance, according to the UN. Now, that dependence is colliding with shrinking resources and a hunger crisis.
‘Children Are Bound To Die’: Corruption, Aid Cuts And Violence Fuel A Hunger Crisis In South Sudan
A recent U.N.-backed report projects that about 2.3 million children under 5 in South Sudan now require treatment for acute malnutrition, with over 700,000 of those in severe condition.
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‘Children are bound to die’: Corruption, aid cuts and violence fuel a hunger crisis in South Sudan
A recent U.N-backed report projects that about 2.3 million children under 5 in South Sudan now require treatment for acute malnutrition.
The Washington Post · Caitlin Kelly (The Associated Press) Juba, South Sudan. Adut Duor is 14 months old and should be able to take his first steps. But the reality is very different: The baby’s spine is etched into his skin, and his legs hang like poles from his mother’s lap, who holds him in this hospital in South Sudan. Adut is half the height he should be at his age, and he is so weak that he is unable to walk. The mother, Ayan, was unable t…
'Children are bound to die’: Corruption, aid cuts and violence fuel a hunger crisis in South Sudan
At 14 months, Adut Duor should be walking. Instead, his spine juts through his skin and his legs dangle like sticks from his mother’s lap in a South Sudan hospital. At half the size of a healthy baby his age, he is unable to walk. Adut’s mother, Ayan, couldn’t breastfeed her fifth child, a struggle shared by the 1.1 million pregnant and lactating women who are malnourished in the east African country. “If I had a blessed life and money to feed h…
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