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Children eat porridge their mother cooked with the food she received at a World Food Programme (WFP) distribution site in Pibor, South Sudan.
18 December 2020
Driven by insecurity, the effects of COVID-19, an on-going economic crisis, and the impact of flooding on livelihoods, three UN agencies called on Friday for immediate humanitarian access to eastern South Sudan’s Pibor county, where people are facing catastrophic levels of hunger.
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and other humanitarian aid organizations, are scaling up their responses to save lives and avert a total collapse of livelihoods in hard-to-reach areas.
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Over the past five years, the food security situation in Afghanistan has
steadily deteriorated with the percentage of food insecure people doubling
(from 37 per cent in September 2015 to 76 per cent in November 2020), while the
proportion of people in crisis or emergency levels of food insecurity has
increased more than five-fold (from 8 per cent to 42 per cent over the same
period).
The 2020 Seasonal Food Security Assessment (SFSA) shows that with the onset
of COVID-19, the scale of acute food insecurity in the country is now
comparable to the situation faced in 2018-2019 – the worst year for food
English By Dimo Silva Aurelio Share on Facebook Print this page JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN - Three U.N. organizations are calling for immediate humanitarian access to parts of Pibor County in South Sudan’s Jonglei state, where people have run out of food and are facing catastrophic levels of hunger, according to a report on food insecurity in the country.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report, released Friday, identified Pibor County as one of the areas experiencing a crisis level of food insecurity because of widespread flooding and insecurity, which have prevented aid agencies from delivering food.
The IPC report indicates that in the coming year, an estimated 5.8 million people in South Sudan will likely face IPC Phase 3, which is classified as acute food insecurity.
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December 19, 2020
JUBA: Roughly 60 percent of South Sudan’s population face severe hunger by the middle of next year, the government and UN agencies warned on Friday, calling for urgent assistance to address the growing crisis.
In a new joint report they also said that 1.4 million children face acute malnutrition in the conflict-ravaged eastern African nation. The food security situation and nutrition situation has deteriorated, Isaiah Chol Aruai, chairman of South Sudan’s National Bureau of Statistics, said in the capital Juba as he released the country’s latest hunger assessment. This is because of pockets of insecurity that have led to population displacement, low crop production because of climate shocks such as floods and drought, he said, also pointing to the Covid-19 pandemic, an economic crisis, desert locust infestation and inadequate humanitarian aid. UN-backed assessments use a ranking called the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), w