The non-governmental organisation “Sif The Chelreen” warned that the young country is experiencing the “worst hunger crisis” as a result of it, particularly repeated floods and armed conflicts, on Thursday, stating that approximately 1. 4 million children under the age of five in South Sudan are malnourished.
And South Sudan, which became independent from Sudan in 2011, is immersed in political-state warfare, has never known stability, and this year, for the fourth consecutive year, had floods that have so far caused damage in nine out of the ten states in the nation.
The United Nations estimates that 8.9 million people, or 70% of the population, in this country require humanitarian assistance.
This number “includes 1,” in the statement “Save childhood,”
Malnutrition affects 4 million kids under the age of five.”
According to the NGO “More than 615,000 people have been harmed for a fourth year in a row by enormous floods that devastated crops and homes and increased malaria and snakes, especially among women and children. The situation has gotten worse recently.
The group noted that the South Sudanese currency had lost 40% of its value this year, which had raised the cost of imported goods, which had risen mostly as a result of the conflict in Ukraine.
East African nation of South Sudan is impenetrable.
According to Jeep Rabiltosaporen, the organization’s head in Juba, “South Sudan is one of the five most fragile countries in the world in front of climate change.”
In the state of South Sudan, more than a million children under the age of five are malnourished.
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