The World Food Program, the United Nations Children’s Fund, and the Food and Agriculture Organization all predicted that the food shortage will be worse in 2013 and 2016 than it was in the state during the height of the civil war.
The organizations added in a statement that “the decline in the level of food security and the widespread spread of malnutrition is linked to the meeting of the factors of conflict, poor macroeconomic conditions, extremist climatic conditions, and high food and fuel costs.
“At the same time, despite the excess of humanitarian requirements, there is a drop in financing humanitarian initiatives,” the statement read, according to Reuters.
A lack of funding for humanitarian organisations is a result of the high global food costs brought on by the conflict in Ukraine.
In the middle of a state-on-state conflict, the World Food Program had to withhold some food aid to South Sudan, making it “for the most hungry year” since the country’s independence, it had been reported in June.
Organizations affiliated with the UN projected in August that 7.7 million people in the nation experienced severe food shortages between the two harvest seasons, from April to July.
As soon as South Sudan proclaimed its independence from Sudan in 2011, the country descended into civil war. While a peace agreement was signed 4 years ago and is still largely valid, the transitional government’s efforts to unify the banner of the various military factions are still slow.
“An urgent move is necessary.
The South Sudanese Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Josephine Lago, stated that we needed to refocus and reallocate resources.
South Sudan is plagued by the memory of the hunger.
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