WFP has scaled up its emergency response in Akobo, South Sudan, delivering vital food and nutrition aid to people facing catastrophic hunger.
This was originally posted on wfp.org Conflict and displacement drive worsening crisis, with risk of famine in hardest-hit areas; nearly 700,000 children in danger of
WFP is scaling up its emergency response to reach people forced to flee spiraling conflict in South Sudan’s Jonglei state.
A UN interagency convoy has reached Dilling and Kadugli, South Kordofan, with lifesaving humanitarian supplies to assist over 130,000 people.
WFP is today on all parties to the conflict to urgently halt military operations, de-escalate the situation and allow safe humanitarian access to deliver lifesaving food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan’s Jonglei State.
A new joint report by FAO and WFP warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which could drive more into famine.
South Sudan continues to face a severe food and nutrition crisis, which is threatening to deteriorate further.
FAO and WFP warn today of the escalating humanitarian crisis in the DRC with acute food insecurity remaining stubbornly high.
New WFP report, ‘A Lifeline at Risk’, finds that 13.7 million WFP food aid recipients could be pushed into emergency levels of hunger.
WFP has reached over 2 million people with lifesaving assistance in South Sudan so far this year. However, a severe funding shortfall threatens ongoing support, placing millions at risk of losing aid.
