{"id":182061,"date":"2022-07-03T09:12:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T01:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=182061"},"modified":"2022-07-03T09:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T01:12:01","slug":"south-sudan-thousands-facing-food-insecurity-as-food-aid-cuts-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=182061","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: Thousands facing food insecurity as food aid cuts hit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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JUBA,\u00a0July 3 (NNN-AGENCIES) — <\/strong>Two children and an adult have died of starvation in South Sudan as the suspension of food aid begins to hit, aid workers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The deaths occurred in a displacement camp in the northern Warrap state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes after the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said it had suspended rationing programmes in parts of the country due to a lack of funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In June, the body said it needed $426m to continue distributing food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that aid has not been forthcoming as the international community has focussed on other overlapping crises, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sami Al Subaihi, a M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res worker at the camp, said that one of the children was just five years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I find the mother of one of the children sitting by her five-year-old son’s small, freshly dug grave,” he said. “Her three other children, all very thin and weak, sit at the entrance of the family’s improvised shelter.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added that more than 20,000 people living at displacement camps were at risk of starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In one camp I see people collapsing, physically exhausted. They clearly haven’t had enough food for a while. I don’t see anyone cooking or any food stored in any of the shelters.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A WFP official said the body has “suspended assistance to 1.7 million people due to being underfunded, but we continue [to help] 4.5 million people”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They said the suspension was spread out across different regions of the country and added that more than 60% of the population of 11 million now faced “food insecurity”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 14, the body said that it had “exhausted all options before suspending food assistance, including halving rations in 2021, leaving families in need with less food to eat”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Sudan has been wracked with violence since it achieved independence in 2011 and this has contributed to food insecurity, despite the formation of a unity government in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation has also been worsened by four consecutive seasons of flooding that have destroyed homes and farmlands, and displaced tens of thousands. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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