UNITED NATIONS, May 14 (Xinhua) -- More than 7 million of the estimated 11 million population of South Sudan are likely to suffer high levels of food insecurity through July, said UN humanitarians on Tuesday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said intercommunal...
UN food security agencies on August 1st warned that South Sudan faces a severe humanitarian crisis unless immediate action and investment are taken to address food insecurity, climate challenges, and insecurity. "Conflict, climate change, and soaring costs in South Sudan are causing some of ...
A girl waits for aid at dock in Juba, South Sudan, Aug. 13, 2011. (Xinhua/Wu Xiaoling) JUBA, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) -- Extreme levels of food insecurity are expected across South Sudan through at least the first half of 2017, a food security analysis released shows. The report by the Fam...
JUBA, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The UN senior relief official in South Sudan on Friday called for urgent action to help avert a worsening food crisis in the world's youngest nation. Alain Noudehou, the UN humanitarian coordinator, said although a famine was stopped due to intensive humanitarian ...
South Sudan Faces Growing Food Crisis 2015-06-12 The Red Cross said food insecurity for more than four million people in South Sudan is near famine levels. It warned many people could face starvation if violence continues. An upsurge in violence is blamed for the displacement of about 100,...
Jam Mayom, acting project FFA officer in Panker said women have the ability to end the food crisis facing South Sudan though most of them do not have the capacity to engage in large scale agriculture due to existing societal obstacles. ...
According to the report, three consecutive years of increased flooding, the loss of livelihoods, destruction of farmland and livestock and subsequent displacement have deepened the dire hunger crisis, engulfing South Sudan and pushing millions into abject poverty as food becomes scarce and millions strug...
South Sudanese are resorting to extreme coping techniques of eating leaves from trees as food runs out even in crisis areas where famine has not been declared, a humanitarian aid agency said on Monday.
JUBA, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- The UN World Health Organization (WHO) has decried South Sudan's disease burden which it said is rising rapidly in the midst of a protracted conflict that is causing widespread displacement and a major food crisis. ...
This study sets out to investigate the effect of the 'double risk' of food insecurity as manifested through coping with livelihood strains and food expenditure during a protracted humanitarian crisis in South Sudan. We used Generalized Linear Mixed Modelling for determining possible predictors of the ...