Asunta Nyanut Deng, 55, with grandchild, Nyanlang Hai Deng, 16 months, are experiencing first hand the poverty that is blighting South Sudan. Photographs: Christian Aid/Silvano Yokwe
A PEACE-BUILDING project in crisis-hit South Sudan has been axed as a result of the Tory government’s 59% cut in aid to the country.
The move to slash Christian Aid’s work comes as peace is on the brink in South Sudan, and has been condemned by Sally Foster-Fulton, head of the charity in Scotland.
The funding cut is taking place three years after a fragile peace agreement which risks being undermined by ethnic and regional tensions, made worse by Covid-19 and climate impacts.