JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The United Kingdom has provided ?2.1 million (US$2.8 million) to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to expand anticipatory action interventions in South Sudan, helping hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable communities prepare for forecast climate shocks before their most damaging impacts are felt.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨CThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) strongly condemns a significant security incident and the forced offloading of humanitarian food assistance under duress during a recent river convoy operation in Ayod County, Jonglei state.
This is a transcription of what was said by Matthew Hollingworth, Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s Assistant Executive Director for Programme Operations ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's Geneva briefing.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨CThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has today welcomed a timely contribution of JPY 350 million (approximately USD 2.2 million) from the Government of Japan to support lifesaving nutrition assistance for vulnerable women and children in South Sudan.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing further access to lifesaving food, nutrition and other assistance due to critical funding shortfalls, leaving families who fled war and hunger with nowhere else to turn, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Government of South Sudan have activated the country¡¯s first-ever drought anticipatory action plan, directly shielding over 65,000 people in Budi and Kapoeta North counties from severe, climate-induced food insecurity.
AKOBO, South Sudan - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has scaled-up its emergency response in Akobo East, South Sudan, delivering vital food and nutrition assistance to hundreds of thousands of people facing catastrophic hunger and malnutrition, even as insecurity, infrastructure damage and the onset of the rainy season continue to hamper operations.
Conflict and displacement drive worsening crisis, with risk of famine in hardest-hit areas; nearly 700,000 children in danger of severe and deadly malnutrition
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is scaling up its emergency response to reach the growing number of people forced to flee spiralling conflict in South Sudan¡¯s Jonglei state. These life-saving food distributions, transported along river routes, come amid increasing insecurity that is hampering humanitarian efforts and threatening to drive hunger in the region to unprecedented levels.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is today calling on all parties to the conflict to urgently halt military operations, de-escalate the situation, and allow safe humanitarian access to deliver life-saving food assistance to hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan¡¯s Jonglei State.
JUBA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of NOK 128.6M (US$ 12.5 million) from the government of Norway. This timely contribution will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to provide life-saving food and nutritional assistance to vulnerable populations across South Sudan, while also strengthening community resilience and supporting critical common services that underpin humanitarian operations in the country.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The Government of Germany has contributed EUR 28.5 million to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) operations to assist tens of thousands of people affected by the worsening food insecurity and nutrition crisis across South Sudan.
Conflict and violence are driving extreme hunger in six major crises
ROME ¨C A new joint report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warns that acute food insecurity is deepening in 16 hunger hotspots, which threatens to drive millions more into famine or risk of famine.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The United Nations today warned that South Sudan continues to face a severe food and nutrition crisis, which is threatening to deteriorate further unless urgent humanitarian action is mounted.
New Â鶹ÊÓƵ report, ¡®A Lifeline at Risk¡¯, finds that 13.7 million Â鶹ÊÓƵ food aid recipients could be pushed into emergency levels of hunger as support is cut
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today warned that six of its most critical humanitarian operations are facing severe pipeline breaks by year end, putting more lives at risk, as global humanitarian funding dries up. Without additional resources, millions of vulnerable people could be left without lifesaving food assistance at a time when global hunger has soared to record highs.
Juba, Germany, has provided another 65 million USD to UNICEF and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) to strengthen community resilience to various shocks in South Sudan.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) began airdropping emergency food assistance to thousands of families in South Sudan¡¯s Upper Nile State, where surging conflict since March has forced families from their homes and pushed some communities to the brink of famine.
Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali remain hotspots of highest concern, and Democratic Republic of the Congo has returned as a hunger hotspot to watch
ROME ¨C A new joint UN report warns that people in five hunger hotspots around the world face extreme hunger and risk of starvation and death in the coming months unless there is urgent humanitarian action and a coordinated international effort to de-escalate conflict, stem displacement, and mount an urgent full-scale aid response.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C The population in two counties in South Sudan are at risk of famine in the coming months, as conflict in Upper Nile state escalates, destroying homes, disrupting livelihoods, and impeding the delivery of humanitarian aid.
JUBA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached more than 6,000 vulnerable mothers and children in flood-affected Bentiu, Unity State, with lifesaving nutrition assistance, thanks to generous funding from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSrelief).
Juba - More than 60,000 malnourished children in South Sudan¡¯s Upper Nile state are at risk of plunging deeper into malnutrition as treatment supplies run critically low and resupply efforts are hampered, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and UNICEF warned today.
JUBA, South Sudan ¨C Vulnerable families in the northeast of South Sudan are at a critical tipping point as conflict escalates and hunger nears record levels, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warned today that 58 million people risk losing life-saving assistance in the agency¡¯s 28 most critical crisis response operations unless new funding is received urgently.
NAIROBI ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a contribution of US$22 million from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to strengthen climate resilience and food security for smallholder farmers, livestock holders and marginalised groups, including women and youth in Kenya, Somalia and South Sudan.
