UN Report: Climate Change Threatens Food Security in South Sudan

"Hunger and malnutrition" has become the big title of the repercussions of the climate crisis and its effects on the people of South Sudan.

This state is the nascent African country that only a decade has passed since its birth, but it expresses a disturbing nutritional reality that is awaited by many other countries of the African continent due to the effects of climate change on agriculture.

A report issued by the United Nations High Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs (UNHCHA) said that waves of floods that occur at times, droughts that occur at other times and permanent armed conflicts have combined to exacerbate the depth of the human tragedy for the people of South Sudan in many of their regions of the country.

Those factors lead to high rates of hunger and malnutrition.

It is a crisis that the humanitarian relief agencies in the United Nations are seeking to remedy and mitigate.

Reports from the UNHCHA indicate that the 7.76 million people of South Sudan will suffer from severe food declines during the period from April to the end of July 2023 as a result of climate change, and at least 1.4 million children in South Sudan will suffer from diseases resulting from malnutrition.