3 UN Organizations Call for Urgent Aid to South Sudan

Due to the Coronavirus restrictions, the continuous economic crisis, and the floods impact, three UN organizations, today, are exerting efforts to reach out people in South Sudan to assist them with the catastrophic circumstances, they're dealing with.

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), World Food Programme (WFP) and other humanitarian aid organizations, are speeding up their responses to save lives and avoid a total collapse of livelihoods in hard-to-reach areas.

South Sudan’s FAO Representative Meshack Malo said that "We call on the warring parties to stop fighting, to grant humanitarian access for the South Sudanese before it is too late."

UN-backed Integrated Food Security Organization issued a report projects that from April to July 2021, over 60 per cent of the country's population will face a severe food crisis.

Makena Walker, WFP’s Deputy Country Director stated that "The upcoming year will be tough, yet we will spare no effort to reach more people across the country."

The independent analysis also found that some communities in Akobo, Aweil South, Tonj East, Tonj North and Tonj South counties, are confronting catastrophic conditions.

Meanwhile, in Pibor, some 1.4 million children between six months and five years old are expected to be acutely malnourished in 2021, according to the aforementioned report.

UNICEF’s South Sudan Representative, Mohamed Ayoya said, "These children need serious help to prevent them from dying."

Ayoya continued that "Government, donor organizations and humanitarian actors should join hands to ensure that these children are getting a proper treatment."

Over the past two months, WFP expanded food assistance to nearly 80,000 people in Pibor and began boosting up aid to critically food insecure areas there and other at-risk areas.

Also, FAO prioritized farming and agro-pastoral communities to assist in increasing their production and preserve their livelihood.

This year FAO supported over 100,000 farming families to grow their food from seeds, vaccinated and treated more than five million animals, which benefited 164,000 households.