WFP South Sudan Situation Report #288, 28 May 2021
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1.9 million acutely malnourished women and children (IPC)
2.6 million people assisted by WFP in April 2021
1.47 million internally displaced people (OCHA)
2.2 million South Sudanese refugees (UNHCR)
Highlights
• Sub-national violence in the Greater Pibor Administrative Area displaced an estimated 20,000 people. Some 550 mt of WFP food and nutrition items, enough to feed 33,000 people for one month, were looted.
• Two humanitarian workers have lost their lives in May and several violent attacks have been reported across South Sudan.
• The cereal deficit for 2021 is estimated to be 465,600 mt (FAO and WFP Crop and Food Security Assessment Mission). The deficit contributes to record-high levels of food insecurity throughout the country.
4 killed, 350 cattle raided in Rumbek Centre
At least four people have been killed, seven others wounded and over 350 head of cattle raided from Rumbek Centre County of Lakes State by armed youth suspected to have come from Panyijiar County in neighboring Unity State.
The attack occurred in Amongpiny Payam of Rumbek Centre County on Wednesday.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj on Wednesday, the police chief in the area Brigadier General Makur Dak, said: They came as a huge force, and they took the whole cattle camp. The number which they raided was 356 cows, but only 6 cows were recovered, and they went with 350.
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