Juba, 3 November (Prensa Latina) United Nations agencies today warned that 7.7 million people in South Sudan, a country of more than 11 million people, are at risk of starvation due to food insecurity.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Food Program (WFP) have uncovered such a complex situation through a joint report published in this capital.
The world body’s institutions also agreed that food insecurity on the national territory will worsen during the April-July 2023 season, a period when an estimated 1.4 million children are malnourished.
On the other hand, they reported that hunger and malnutrition are increasing in local areas affected by floods, droughts and various internal conflicts.
In order to mitigate the situation of vulnerability in which people find themselves, taxpayers must sustain humanitarian aid as well as climate change adaptation measures, they stressed in the document.
After noting that the central areas of South Sudan are hit the hardest by floods each year, FAO representative in that country Meshack Malo recently stated that amid food shortages such as B. grain, investments in fields must be made to increase agricultural production.
This area of central Africa is suffering from a deep economic crisis and is witnessing the devastation of violence in communities, including several in northern Alto Nile state, where thousands of civilians have been displaced.
South Sudan, on the other hand, has not yet recovered from the aftermath of the civil war (2013-2018), according to humanitarian organizations, in which more than 350,000 people died.
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