According to the United Nations, two-thirds of South Sudan’s population, up to 7.8 million people, may face severe food shortages between April and July 2023 due to floods, drought and conflict
The shortages are worse than at the height of a civil war in 2013 and 2016, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF and the U.N. World Food Programme said.
"At the same time, there has been a decline in funding for humanitarian programmes despite the steady rise in humanitarian needs." The opening of Uganda's dams to relieve congestion would likely exacerbate flooding downstream in South Sudan, it added.some food aid to South Sudan just as it was facing its "hungriest year" since independence. In August, the U.N. agencies estimated that 7.7 million suffered severe food shortages in the country in the April-July period between two harvests.
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