Location: South Sudan
For 239 days, WFP has employed every means of food delivery available, from airdrops and barges up the Nile to convoys of trucks, all transporting lifesaving food.
How a daily school meal is giving children a fighting chance at life.
Four years of conflict in South Sudan has plunged millions of people into hunger—and time is running out.
There isn't enough food — for refugees, for vulnerable families in conflict zones and for people struggling on the brink of famine.
‘People had only wild fruits and leaves to eat… and hunting, but most animals had run away because of the war.’
Conflict and Famine
In South Sudan, the combined effects of civil war and drought have left nearly 5 million people food-insecure.
Almost four years after civil war broke out, we reflect on the stories dispatched from the world's youngest nation — South Sudan.
Last month WFP reached some 2.7 million people with lifesaving food assistance across South Sudan.
WFP and UNICEF designed the simple yet innovative Integrated Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM) to deliver urgently needed supplies to families in hard-to-reach areas.
Conflict drives 80 percent of the world’s humanitarian needs — and the crisis in South Sudan is no different.
U.N. World Food Programme operations to fight emergency famine is only 46 percent funded. You can help.