More than 70 percent of South Sudan's population will face extreme hunger this year as conflict and climate-related disasters deepen food scarcity in the landlocked African country, warns UN's food assistance branch, World Food Programme
Climate crisis and internal violence have forced thousands of South Sudanese to leave their residential areas as many of them"could starve without food assistance,” the World Food Programme said.
Since gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, the world's newest nation has been in the throes of economic and political crisis, and is struggling to recover from a five-year civil war that left nearly 400,000 people dead. A mother sits with her malnourished baby at a hospital run by Medicines Sans Frontieres in Old Fangak in Jonglei state, South Sudan Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021.
Although a 2018 ceasefire and power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and his deputy Riek Machar still largely holds, it is being sorely tested, with little progress made in fulfilling the terms of the lumbering peace process.
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