South Sudan to experience acute food insecurity levels
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January 1, 2017 (JUBA) – War-torn South Sudan will experience extreme
levels of food insecurity across the country in the first half of
2017, a new food security report show.
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Acute food insecurity Feb- Sept 2016 (Photo credit: FEWS NET)
Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS Net), a body that provides early
warning and analysis on food insecurity said in its new report that
food availability is likely to be lower than normal due to
below-average production and volatile trade and that very high price
could also limit food access.
Aid agencies say over 2.5 million people have been displaced by the
conflict in South Sudan, with an estimated over a million said to have
fled into neighbouring countries.
The conflict between South Sudan’s rival factions, has led to deaths
of thousands since it broke out in December 2013.
"Despite the ongoing harvest, levels of acute malnutrition remain at
Crisis and Emergency thresholds in many counties," FEWS Net said in a
report released Saturday.
"Given the likely early depletion of household stocks and continued
constraints to normal livelihood activities, high levels of acute
malnutrition are expected to persist throughout the outlook period,”
it adds.
The report also projects a likely upsurge in humanitarian needs within
the country, citing the continued civil war.
It, however, said emergency humanitarian assistance and improved
access should continue to urgently save lives.
According to the report, over 50 percent of the population in South
Sudan’s oil-rich Unity state is already internally displaced and
ongoing conflict in Mayendit, Rubkona and Leer resulted into new
displacement of people last month.
Food insecurity, the report further stressed, is particularly severe
among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Leer, the majority of
whom are displaced to nearby swamps and lack access to food aid or
basic health services.
"Although Unity hosts the largest number of IDPs, internal
displacement has increased most rapidly in Greater Equatoria, where
the number of IDPs has increased 250 percent since July," it says.
Also cited in the report is the insecurity in Eastern Equatoria region
is forcing many to flee to Kenya, where the rate of refugee arrivals
increased from about 300 people per week in September to over 1,000
people per week in November.
(ST)
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