US EditionSouth Sudan: WFP Airdrops Food to Prevent Catastrophe As Hunger Surges in Conflict-Hit Parts of South Sudan
SOUTH SUDAN, JUL 7 – The World Food Programme targets 470,000 people in Upper Nile and northern Jonglei during the lean season amid conflict and funding gaps, with over 40,000 facing catastrophic hunger.
- In Juba, South Sudan, the United Nations World Food Programme began airdropping emergency food assistance to thousands of families in conflict-hit Upper Nile State.
- Blocked river routes have hindered aid delivery during the lean season through August, deepening hunger in South Sudan's conflict zones.
- Across South Sudan, 7.7 million people — 57 percent of the population — face crisis or worse levels of hunger, and 2.3 million children are at risk of malnutrition.
- In Nasir and Ulang, these distributions mark WFP’s first humanitarian access in over four months to deliver aid to over 40,000 people by air.
- The WFP urgently needs US$274 million through December, and it called for river routes to reopen to improve delivery efficiency.
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WFP Airdrops Emergency Food in South Sudan as Famine Threatens Upper Nile - teleSUR English
The World Food Programme (WFP) has begun airdropping emergency food aid to thousands of families in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, where escalating conflict has displaced communities and pushed over . This marks the first humanitarian access in over four months to the remote counties of Nasir and Ulang, which are only reachable by air due to ongoing fighting and blocked river routes. WFP began airdropping emergency food assistance in #SouthSud…
The World Food Programme (WFP) announced Monday that it has resumed airdropping emergency food aid to thousands of families in South Sudan's Upper Nile state, in its first such operation.
The World Food Programme (WFP) opted to begin launching emergency food assistance from the air to thousands of families in Upper Nile, who have been forced to leave their homes because of the conflict that has pushed some communities to the brink of famine, according to the United Nations agency (UN). This is WFP's first access in more than four months to "provide vital food and nutrition assistance to more than 40,000 people facing catastrophic…
In the face of ongoing struggles, many people in South Sudan are lacking food. The UN World Food Programme is now supplying remote areas from the air - but the aid is not enough.
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